Small‐seeded species produce more seeds per square metre of canopy per year, but not per individual per lifetime

By A. Moles, Daniel S. Falster, M. Leishman, M. Westoby. 2004

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Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science

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Impact of abundance weighting on the response of seed traits to climate and land use (2008, background): “Advantages accrue at later stages of the life cycle, through the production of either larger or more long-lived plants, such that lifetime seed production is not correlated to seed mass (Moles et al. 2004).”
Global mapping of Jatropha curcas yield based on response of fitness to present and future climate (2010, background): “Analyses of seed addition projects worldwide for 84 large-seeded tree species demonstrate significant positive linear relationships (P 5 0.0026) between seed mass and seedling recruitment probability (Moles & Westoby, 2002; Moles et al., 2004) and hence species occurrence probability.”
The leaf size/number trade‐off in trees (2007, background): “Shipley & Dion 1992; Jakobsson & Eriksson 2000; Aarssen & Jordan 2001; Henery & Westoby 2001; Moles et al . 2004 ).”
Seed mass, seedling size and neotropical tree seedling establishment (2005, background): “Although the seed mass – seed number trade-off may not result in an advantage to smaller-seeded species over their lifetimes (Moles et al. 2004), it appears to be a general phenomenon by which smaller-seeded species enjoy a numerical advantage in any given year (Henery & Westoby 2001).”
Functional traits shape ontogenetic growth trajectories of rain forest tree species (2011, background): “Seed size is a poor predictor of adult growth rates, although it might be very important for the regeneration strategy (Moles et al. 2004; Baraloto, Goldberg & Bonal 2005).”
Global patterns in plant height (2009, methodology): “Plant height data were compiled opportunistically from previously published studies, from floras and from pre-existing data bases including the leda traitbase (Kleyer et al. 2008) and Moles et al. (2004).”
Influence of four major plant traits on average height, leaf‐area cover, net primary productivity, and biomass density in single‐species forests: a theoretical investigation (2011, methodology): “Data for seed size were taken from a published database (Moles et al. 2004), restricted to species that attain more than 5 m height.”
Why are there so many small plants? Implications for species coexistence (2006, background): “larger species have the same lifetime fecundity per unit adult plant mass as smaller species (Aarssen & Jordan 2001; Moles et al . 2004; Aarssen 2005a), although more data are required to adequately assess this for long-lived trees.”
Some Evolutionary Consequences of Being a Tree (2006, background): “Similar results were obtained by Moles et al. (2004) for plant and seed mass. Aarssen (2005) argued that the observed patterns might be a simple consequence of the fact that the spectrum of possible seed sizes broadens with plant size.”
Assessing species and community functional responses to environmental gradients: which multivariate methods? (2012, background): “For instance, if canopy height is correlated with seed mass (Moles et al. 2004; Leishman et al. 1995), clustering based on canopy height may yield the same species groups as clustering based on seedmass.”
Seed dispersal distance is more strongly correlated with plant height than with seed mass (2011, background): “Small-seeded species also tend to have high annual seed output, but short lifespans (Moles & Westoby 2004; Moles et al. 2004).”