Colonization, tolerance, competition and seed-size variation within functional groups

By David A. Coomes, P. Grubb. 2003

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science

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A trait-based test for habitat filtering: convex hull volume. (2006, background): “Seed 5 hhttp://www.pricklysoft.org/software/traithull.htmli S TA TI S TI C A L R E P O R TS mass is a crucial feature of dispersal and regeneration ecology (Coomes and Grubb 2003).”
PERFORMANCE TRADE-OFFS AMONG TROPICAL TREE SEEDLINGS IN CONTRASTING MICROHABITATS (2005, background): “It has been suggested that dispersal limitation may be more important to structuring tropical forest tree communities than performance differences because potential competitors rarely encounter one another in the field (Coomes and Grubb 2003).”
Latitudinal gradients as natural laboratories to infer species' responses to temperature (2013, background): “…key ecological traits as they control access to light, escape from predators and disturbance, dispersal distances, soil seed bank persistence, germination potential, seedling establishment, and community assembly (Westoby 1998; Ehrl en & Eriksson 2000; Coomes & Grubb 2003; Moles et al. 2007, 2009).”
A mechanistic model for secondary seed dispersal by wind and its experimental validation (2005, background): “However, this negative correlation does not seem to hold for animal-dispersed plants (e.g. Coomes & Grubb 2003).”
Small‐seeded species produce more seeds per square metre of canopy per year, but not per individual per lifetime (2004, background): “However, there is some evidence that the advantage of large-seeded species during seedling establishment is not sufficient to counterbalance the greater number of small seeds that can be produced for a given amount of reproductive effort (Coomes & Grubb 2003; Moles & Westoby 2004).”
The hare, the tortoise and the crocodile: the ecology of angiosperm dominance, conifer persistence and fern filtering (2005, positive): “Small-seeded species produce many more seeds than larger-seeded species (Rees 1995; Coomes & Grubb 2003), and thereby have a greater seed rain onto the few raised surfaces available for establishment.”
Costs of dispersal (2012, background): “In plants, germination rates and the settlement success of seedlings from small seeds may depend strongly on the local conditions that induce variation in resource availability and allocation (Coomes & Grubb, 2003), which may obscure the observation of emigration-colonisation trade-offs.”
Functional traits explain variation in plant life history strategies (2013, background): “For example, plants can allocate their reproductive effort to provision a few large seeds, which tolerate low light and resource availability and have a high survival probability, or they can spread their reproductive effort among many small seeds, maximizing fitness under high resource availability”
Using experimental manipulation to assess the roles of leaf litter in the functioning of forest ecosystems (2005, background): “However, although there exists empirical evidence to back this theory, there are many examples where no relationships between seed size and shade-tolerance or predation were found and the support for this theory in general is therefore not very strong (Coomes & Grubb, 2003).”
Seed mass and the competition/colonization trade‐off: competitive interactions and spatial patterns in a guild of annual plants (2004, background): “Other authors have concluded that a seed size/ seed number trade-off is unlikely to be the main determinant of community structure in other annual systems (Leishman 2001; Coomes et al. 2002a; Coomes & Grubb 2003).”
Plant coexistence and the niche (2004, background): “The role of competition-colonization tradeoffs (Box 1) in plant coexistence has been the subject of a recent review [ 37 ].”
The diversity and conservation of plant reproductive and dispersal functional traits in human‐dominated tropical landscapes (2006, background): “2002; Coomes & Grubb 2003), and thus potentially provide broad insights into patterns of functional diversity at the community level.”