What do seedlings die from and what are the implications for evolution of seed size

By A. Moles, M. Westoby. 2004

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Subfields: Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science

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Weak Competition Among Tropical Tree Seedlings: Implications for Species Coexistence (2008, background): “In part due to asymmetric competition with adults, the density of seedlings in many closed-canopy forests is relatively low (Harms et al. 2004, Moles & Westoby 2004; Table 1).”
Testing a relict distributional pattern of fen plant and terrestrial snail species at the Holocene scale: a null model approach (2011, background): “…to being limited by propagule size, colonization of new localities by vascular plant species can be limited by high rates of seedling mortality (Moles & Westoby, 2004), a 750 Journal of Biogeography 38, 742–755 ª 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd transient or short-term-persisting seed bank…”
Regeneration: an overlooked aspect of trait‐based plant community assembly models (2016, unknown): “1; Garwood 1996; Moles & Westoby 2004).”
The role of ants in the removal of non-myrmecochorous diaspores and seed germination in a neotropical savanna (2007, background): “This might ensure survival during the first dry season when seedlings are in general more susceptible to death during periods of water shortage (Moles & Westoby 2004, Passos & Oliveira 2004), which is particularly severe in the study site.”
Ontogenetic shifts in plant ecological strategies (2018, background): “…from both habitats exhibited strategies tending towards the R‐strategy in the juvenile stage, and shifts of a similar magnitude away from the R‐strategy into adulthood, possibly due to the greater vulnerability of early developmental stages to damage (Harms & Dalling, 1997; Moles & Westoby, 2004).”
Early root growth plasticity in seedlings of three Mediterranean woody species (2007, unknown): “Because emerged seedlings are much more sensitive to dehydration than seeds or juvenile individuals (Evans and Etherington 1991), drought is often the main cause of seedling death in many environments ( Moles and Westoby 2004a ).”
Community assembly and shifts in plant trait distributions across an environmental gradient in coastal California (2009, result): “This is consistent with the relationship between seed size and the competition– colonization trade-off (Jakobsson and Eriksson 2000, Moles and Westoby 2004), and provides further evidence for the idea that assembly processes generate communities with a wide array of regeneration strategies (Rees…”
Population differences in juvenile survival under increasing drought are mediated by seed size in cork oak (Quercus suber L.). (2009, background): “…to be an adaptive trait associated with environmental variables such as latitude (Yakimowski and Eckert, 2007), altitude (Yamada and Miyaura, 2005), temperature (Murray et al., 2004) and water availability (Parciak, 2002) but also with dispersal strategy and growth form (Moles and Westoby, 2004a).”
Environmental and spatial controls of biotic assemblages in a discrete semi‐terrestrial habitat: comparison of organisms with different dispersal abilities sampled in the same plots (2011, background): “Vascular plant dispersal to new sites may be limited by high seedling mortality (Moles & Westoby, 2004), seed limitations such as a transient seed bank, seed predation, viable-seed limitation, poor germination (Stammel et al., 2006) and, finally, by a larger body and thus lower population sizes.”
Morpho-Anatomical Traits for Plant Adaptation to Drought (2012, background): “recruitment processes in time and/or in space (García-Fayos and Verdú 1998; Moles and Westoby 2004).”
Islands of fertility induce co-occurring negative and positive plant-soil feedbacks promoting coexistence (2008, background): “Additionally, according with previous findings (Moles and Westoby 2004), we suggest that intraspecific competition among Medicago seedling would be of little relevance because they are too widely spaced for any competitive interaction.”