Seed mass, seedling size and neotropical tree seedling establishment

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Size‐dependence of growth and mortality influence the shade tolerance of trees in a lowland temperate rain forest (2009, background): “…growth and low-light survival usually assume that the trade-off results in important consequences for tree recruitment dynamics (Lin et al. 2002; Baraloto et al. 2005a), but few studies have proceeded to test this assertion by integrating the dynamics of the species over different life stages…”
Are functional traits good predictors of demographic rates? Evidence from five neotropical forests. (2008, background): “Correlations between RGR and seed size are therefore especially high just after germination (Paz et al. 2005), but disappear over time as the initial SLA and LAR differences vanish (Baraloto et al. 2005, Poorter and Rose 2005).”
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