Adaptation to extreme habitats starts in the seed.
Tag - seedling establishment
Juniper Kiss
How Gleditsia triacanthos invades across biomes
A plant can invade territory when it's adapted to it, but how can a plant be adapted to multiple biomes. A new paper examines how Honey Locust seedlings use plasticity to tackle new locations.
Alun Salt
Intra-specific facilitation promotes the recruitment of a desert shrub
In stressful environments, nurse elements, such as shrubs or rocks, facilitate plant recruitment by providing less severe environments for seed germination and seedling survival. As seedlings develop, however, they may...
AoBPLANTS
Effects of warming and N addition on seedling establishment in tundra
Climate change is expected to cause (sub)arctic plant species to move polewards to track their climatic niche. However, rapid migration requires recruitment from seed, which is rare in arctic regions where most plants...
Temperature, latitude and forest plant regeneration
Early life history stages are among the most critical phases in the life cycle of plants. De Frenne et al. assess the response of plant regeneration from seed of two forest understorey plants (Anemone nemorosa and...
botanyone
Seed predator satiation and seedling recruitment
Isoglossa woodii (Acanthaceae) exhibits population-wide synchrony in reproduction and mortality. Tsvuura et al. invoke predator satiation and facilitation of seedling establishment as explanations for masting and...
