SEED SIZE, NITROGEN SUPPLY, AND GROWTH RATE AFFECT TREE SEEDLING SURVIVAL IN DEEP SHADE

By M. Walters, Peter B. Reich. 2000

316 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science

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In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. M. Westoby
2. A. Moles
3. Peter B. Reich
4. I. Wright
5. U. Niinemets
6. P. Grubb
7. L. Sack
8. S. Lavorel

In Plant Science

1. A. Moles
2. M. Westoby
3. U. Niinemets
4. L. Sack
5. M. Leishman
6. K. Kitajima
7. P. Grubb
8. Peter B. Reich

Citations in the corpus

• Do shade‐tolerant tropical tree seedlings depend longer on seed reserves? Functional growth analysis of three Bignoniaceae species (2002, background): “Shade-tolerant species tend to have large seeds, storage cotyledons, and inherently slow relative growth rate (RGR) via low specific leaf area (SLA) and leaf area ratio (LAR) (Kitajima 1996a; Leishman et al . 2000; Veneklaas & Poorter 1998; Walters & Reich 1999, 2000 ).”
• Trade-offs in seedling survival, growth, and physiology among hardwood species of contrasting successional status along a light-availability gradient (2001, background): “As for the consequences of N limitation, there is evidence (Latham 1992; Coomes and Grubb 2000; Walters and Reich 2000b) that it can negatively influence the growth and survival of intolerant tree species (including aspen) even at light availabilities as low as those in our understories.”
• PATHWAYS IN OLD‐FIELD SUCCESSION TO WHITE PINE: SEED RAIN, SHADE, AND CLIMATE EFFECTS (2005, background): “…for limiting nitrogen (Gleeson and Tilman 1990), but white pine seedling emergence, survival, and growth in forests were unrelated to nitrogen (Walters and Reich 2000, Catovsky and Bazzaz 2002), and white pine generally competes best on dry, sandy soils of low to medium site quality (Wendel…”
• Mechanisms of monodominance in diverse tropical tree‐dominated systems (2011, background): “Possible feedback mechanisms identified include deep litter layers favouring larger-seeded species (Scarpa & Valio 2008), which tend to be more shade tolerant (Kitajima 2002), thriving under the deep shade of the canopy (Walters & Reich 2000).”
• Geographical variation in diaspore traits of an ant‐dispersed plant (Helleborus foetidus): are ant community composition and diaspore traits correlated? (2002, background): “Seed mass is also frequently recognized as a fundamental trait determining the future survival of seedlings (Jurado & Westoby 1992; Saverimuttu & Westoby 1996; Eriksson & Eriksson 1998; Walters & Reich 2000).”
• Predicting changes in community composition and ecosystem functioning from plant traits: revisiting the Holy Grail (2002, background): “…single soft trait that simultaneously captures aspects of regeneration (dispersal, seed persistence, recruitment success, Thompson, Band & Hodgson 1993; Westoby, Jurado & Leishman 1992) and seedling response to environmental stress (drought, Jurado & Westoby 1992; shading, Walters & Reich 2000).”
• Growth and mortality in high and low light: trends among 15 shade‐tolerant tropical rain forest tree species (2003, background): “1996; Walters & Reich 2000; Davies 2001).”
• The controversy over traits conferring shade‐tolerance in trees: ontogenetic changes revisited (2006, background): “Kazda, M., Salzer, J. & Reiter, I. (2000) Photosynthetic capacity in relation to nitrogen in the canopy of a Quercus robur, Fraxinus angustifolia and Tilia cordata flood plain forest.”
• Seedling survival and seed size: a synthesis of the literature (2004, background): “1996; Walters & Reich 2000; Dalling & Hubbell 2002).”
• The Evolutionary ecology of seed size (2000, background): “under low light or nutrients), the realized RGR of large- and small-seeded species may be similar, and (larger-seeded) species with more robust leaf and root tissue may survive longer than smaller-seeded species (e.g. Gross, 1984; Seiwa and Kikuzawa, 1991; Leishman and Westoby, 1994b; Walters and Re”
• Neighbourhood analyses of the allelopathic effects of the invasive tree Ailanthus altissima in temperate forests (2008, unknown): “Within species, the probability of survival of tree seedlings and saplings under the low-light conditions typical of forest understoreys has been generally reported to be a positive function of their growth rate (Kobe et al. 1995; Kobe 1996; Walters & Reich 1996, 2000).”