Plant survival in relation to seed size along environmental gradients: a long‐term study from semi‐arid and Mediterranean annual plant communities

By J. Metz, P. Liancourt, J. Kigel, D. Harel, M. Sternberg, Katja Tielbörger. Journal of Ecology, 2010

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1. A positive relationship between seed size and subsequent offspring survival is a key assumption in ecological theory concerning life‐history strategies. Yet, this relationship is uncertain in respect to lifetime survival because sound evidence only exists for early seedling stages. Furthermore, the effect of environmental variation in space and time, and of contrasting plant functional groups, on this relationship has been scarcely examined.

Subfields: Agronomy and Crop Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science

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• Being John Harper: Using evolutionary ideas to improve understanding of global patterns in plant traits (2018, unknown): “…seedling survival (seedlings from larger seeds have higher rates of survival; Bergholz et al., 2015; Grime & Jeffrey, 1965; Lebrija- Trejos et al., 2016; Leishman & Westoby, 1994; Leishman, Wright, Moles, & Westoby, 2000; Metz et al., 2010; Walters & Reich, 2000; Westoby, Leishman, & Lord, 1996).”