Conundrums of competitive ability in plants: what to measure?
By Lonnie W. Aarssen, Teri M. Keogh. 2002
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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science
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Citations in the corpus
- Plant ecology's guilty little secret: understanding the dynamics of plant competition (2013, background): “And relating the outcome of competitive processes to demographic consequences – fitness – is even more uncertain and fraught with practical and theoretical difficulties, as is characterizing the roles of trade-offs between resource capture, growth, survival and fecundity (Aarssen & Keogh 2002).”
- Death without sex—the ‘problem of the small’ and selection for reproductive economy in flowering plants (2008, background): “…larger species for light and soil resources, these larger species in turn have their population densities constrained further by competition with smaller species for offspring establishment space (Aarssen 1989; Aarssen and Taylor 1992; Aarssen and Keogh 2002; Aarssen 2005a; Aarssen et al. 2006).”
- Dispersion of traits related to competitive ability in an old‐field plant community (2007, background): “However, it has been pointed out that, in general, relatively small plant species predominate in nature (Aarssen & Schamp 2002; Aarssen et al . 2006), and that studies implicating species size have seldom measured the reproductive component of fitness in the context of competition ( Aarssen & Keogh ”
- Why are there so many small plants? Implications for species coexistence (2006, background): “…abilities, defined by the composite effects of growth, survival and fecundity on fitness, that are intransitive, even at the genotype level, spanning across taxonomic boundaries within multispecies vegetation (Aarssen 1983, 1989, 1992; Taylor & Aarssen 1990; Aarssen & Keogh 2002; Aarssen 2005b).”