Sprouting ability across diverse disturbances and vegetation types worldwide

By Peter Vesk, M. Westoby. 2004

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Integrating demography and fire management: an example from Florida scrub (2007, background): “Seedlings of resprouting plants may have to allocate more to belowground parts, creating a potential tradeoff with aboveground growth (Vesk and Westoby 2004).”
Soil water availability effects on seed germination account for species segregation in semiarid roadslopes (2007, neutral): “Resprouters have generally been related to disturbances such as fire, hurricane damage and herbivory (Bond and Midgley 2001; Vesk and Westoby 2004).”
To resprout or not to resprout: factors driving intraspecific variability in resprouting (2012, methodology): “A plant can initiate resprouting after its aboveground biomass has been eliminated only if it has a stock of surviving dormant buds (i.e., bud bank; Vesk and Westoby 2004b) from which new sprouts can grow.”
Fitness and evolution of resprouters in relation to fire (2011, background): “Reasons for low fecundity among resprouters There is a general trend for the level of post-fire resprouting to be inversely related to fecundity (Vesk and Westoby 2004a).”
Inferring differential evolutionary processes of plant persistence traits in Northern Hemisphere Mediterranean fire‐prone ecosystems (2006, background): “Also, traits such as lignotubers (as a normal ontogenetic stage and not just a developmental response to coppicing) or heat stimulated germination could be responses to climate or other disturbance factors rather than to fire per se (Keeley 1981; Mesleard & Lepart 1989; Vesk & Westoby 2004 ).”
Landscape patterns of woody plant response to crown fire: disturbance and productivity influence sprouting ability (2005, background): “1995) and disturbance intensity (Vesk & Westoby 2004), with less emphasis on productivity gradients (Lamont & Markey 1995; Bond & Midgley 2001; Clarke & Knox 2002; Vesk & Westoby 2004).”
The challenge of plant regeneration after fire in the Mediterranean Basin: scientific gaps in our knowledge on plant strategies and evolution of traits (2007, background): “Vesk and Westoby (2004) found that fires of medium intensity favour seeders with a very weak sprouting capacity as they often survive and resprout.”
Effects of large fires on biodiversity in south-eastern Australia: disaster or template for diversity? (2008, background): “Plant species and communities are known to respond to differing fire frequencies and intensities in predictable ways that reflect their life-history traits (e.g. Pausas et al. 2004; Vesk and Westoby 2004).”
Principles of Natural Regeneration of Tropical Dry Forests for Restoration (2006, background): “Most clades have both strong sprouter and nonsprouter species, and this trait is not preserved along phylogenetic lineages (Vesk & Westoby 2004).”
Effects of disturbance frequency and severity on plant traits: An assessment across a temperate flora (2018, background): “Currently, most trait analyses, in particular trait response to disturbance, are based on datasets with high proportions of woody species (Clarke et al., 2013; Vesk & Westoby, 2004).”
Nutrient availability induces contrasting allocation and starch formation in resprouting and obligate seeding shrubs (2005, background): “The selective factors that result in this dichotomy are not well understood, but it seems that resprouting ability is a labile trait that is independent of phylogeny (Bond & Midgley 2003; Vesk & Westoby 2004; Clarke et al . 2005).”
Sprouting by semi‐arid plants: testing a dichotomy and predictive traits (2004, background): “A recent literature meta-analysis found that after less intense disturbances, where more stem remains, sprouting ability is better described as a continuum (Vesk and Westoby 2004a).”
Plant size and resprouting ability: trading tolerance and avoidance of damage? (2006, methodology): “Phylogenetic analyses are not reported here (however, see Vesk & Westoby 2004b) because previous studies have demonstrated that resprouting is a phylogenetically widespread and labile trait across broad phylogenetic trees ( Vesk & Westoby 2004b ) and within particular clades (Schwilk & Ackerly 2001;”
Successional Change and Resilience of a Very Dry Tropical Deciduous Forest Following Shifting Agriculture (2008, background): “TDF host a greater proportion of wind-dispersed species (Bullock 1995), seedling survival is typically unsuccessful (Gerhardt & Hytteborn 1992, Swaine 1992), while coppicing contributes greatly to regeneration (Murphy & Lugo 1986, Perera 2001, Vesk & Westoby 2004).”
Fire-related traits for plant species of the Mediterranean Basin (2009, background): “…(Schwilk and Ackerly 2001, Reich et al. 2003, Pausas and Verdú 2005), trade-offs between functional characteristics (Reich et al. 1997, Paula and Pausas 2006), and the different evolutionary pathways between different ecosystems and regions (Vesk and Westoby 2004, Pausas et al. 2004, 2006).”