Bakker et al. find a positive relationship between plant size (V) and seedbank size (S), the SV relationship, using the invasive shrub Ulex europaeus as an example. Bigger plants produce more seeds and ultimately...
Tag - soil fertility
Alex Assiry
Whole-plant organisational traits and ecological strategies in sunflowers
While trait-based plant ecology attempts to use small numbers of organ-level traits to predict ecological strategies, there is a major gap between organ-level ecophysiology and plant fitness in an environmental context...
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Shading and litter depth mediate the effects of soil fertility on starflower distribution
Copeland and Harrison test the relative importance of abiotic and biotic variables on distribution of a common herb species, starflower (Trientalis latifolia, Myrsinaceae), in the Klamath-Siskiyou mountains, Oregon, USA...
Communities on infertile soils are less sensitive to climate change
Much evidence suggests that plant communities on infertile soils are relatively insensitive to increased water deficit caused by increasing temperature and/or decreasing precipitation. Harrison et al. undertake a re...
