The Evolutionary ecology of seed size

By M. Leishman, I. Wright, A. Moles, M. Westoby. 2000

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science

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The Ecology and Evolution of Seed Dispersal: A Theoretical Perspective (2003, background): “The presence of competition-colonization trade-offs also can be documented by analyzing correlations among relevant traits (Leishman et al. 2000).”
Forecasting Regional to Global Plant Migration in Response to Climate Change (2005, background): “It remains to be seen whether dispersal, invasive, and successional characteristics are sufficiently correlated to define a small number of plant migration syndromes within each PFT, as well as their frequency distributions (Grime 1993, Leishman et al. 2000).”
Fleshy fruits – origins, niche shifts, and diversification (2005, background): “Two studies of temperate floras also found an association between seed size and endozoochorous dispersal (Hughes et al. 1994, Leishman et al. 1995 ), and Leishman et al. (2000) concluded that the relationship between large seeds and shaded habitats is ‘‘the strongest pattern of seed mass variation ”
Evolution of Seed Size and Biotic Seed Dispersal in Angiosperms: Paleoecological and Neoecological Evidence (2008, background): “Seed sizes range from minute dust seeds, such as in orchids and weighing a few micrograms, to giants such as the nuts of some palms, weighing more than 10 kg (Leishman et al. 2000).”
The Ancestral Ecology of Angiosperms: Emerging Perspectives from Extant Basal Lineages (2003, background): “…seeds are conjectured to be favored in shady environments because abundant carbon stores are necessary to grow out of dark zones (Salisbury 1942; Leishman et al. 2000), recent work highlights that small seeds (volumes less than ca. 10 mm3; Grubb and Metcalfe 1996; Metcalfe and Grubb 1997; Grubb…”
Restoration potential of the persistent soil seed bank in successional calcareous (alvar) grasslands in Estonia (2012, background): “This result also follows the accepted generalization that species that prefer shaded, mesic and late-successional habitats tend to have larger seeds than those from open, arid, or early-successional habitats (Salisbury 1942; Gross 1984; Leishman et al. 2000).”
Seed–seedling allometry in tropical rain forest trees: seed mass‐related patterns of resource allocation and the ‘reserve effect’ (2004, background): “…Westoby 405 Seed mass variation and the reserve effect © 2004 British Ecological Society, Journal of Ecology, 92, 397–408 et al. (1996) and Leishman et al. (2000) both concluded that, with few exceptions, seedlings from larger seeded species perform better than those from smaller…”
DO SMALL-SEEDED SPECIES HAVE HIGHER SURVIVAL THROUGH SEED PREDATION THAN LARGE-SEEDED SPECIES? (2003, background): “Even within plant communities, there are usually 5–6 orders of magnitude of variation in seed mass across species (Leishman et al. 2000).”
A trait-based approach to community assembly: partitioning of species trait values into within- and among-community components. (2007, background): “Seed size is related to life history strategies, dispersal distances and regeneration biology (Leishman et al. 2000).”
Community-wide germination strategies in an alpine meadow on the eastern Qinghai-Tibet plateau: phylogenetic and life-history correlates (2008, background): “Seed size has also been studied in connection with many other aspects of plant biology (Baker 1972; Foster 1986; Mazer 1989; Westoby et al. 1992; Bond et al. 1999; Leishman et al. 2000; Jurado and Flores 2005).”
Differences of dispersal fitness of large and small acorns of Liaodong oak (Quercus liaotungensis) before and after seed caching by small rodents in a warm temperate forest, China (2008, background): “Large seeds may have higher probability for seedling establishment (Harper et al., 1970; Stanton, 1984, 1985; Leishman et al., 2000).”