Between-species patterns of covariation in plant size, seed size and fecundity in monocarpic herbs

By Lonnie W. Aarssen, Crispin Y Jordan. 2001

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

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. A. Moles
2. M. Westoby
3. O. Eriksson
4. S. Lavorel
5. J. Lepš
6. Francesco de Bello
7. D. Laughlin
8. Lonnie W. Aarssen

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. S. Lavorel
2. A. Moles
3. D. Laughlin
4. Francesco de Bello
5. M. Westoby
6. R. Pakeman
7. J. Lepš
8. O. Eriksson

Citations in the corpus

• The functional role of soil seed banks in natural communities. (2014, background): “As a rule of thumb, ten times smaller seeds can be produced in ten times higher number for a given canopy area (Aarssen and Jordan, 2001; Henery and Westoby, 2001; Moles and Westoby, 2002).”
• Being John Harper: Using evolutionary ideas to improve understanding of global patterns in plant traits (2018, background): “There is excellent evidence for a trade- off between the size of seeds and the number of seeds that a plant can make for a given amount of energy (Aarssen & Jordan, 2001; Jakobsson & Eriksson, 2000; Shipley & Dion, 1992).”
• A multi‐trait test of the leaf‐height‐seed plant strategy scheme with 133 species from a pine forest flora (2010, background): “Plant height at maturity has been related to competitive ability and fecundity (Keddy & Shipley 1989; Aarssen & Jordan 2001).”
• Geographic variation in seed mass within and among nine species of Pedicularis (Orobanchaceae): effects of elevation, plant size and seed number per fruit (2010, background): “Given that both plant size and mean seed number (per fruit or per individual) may affect MISM (Venable 1992; Jakobsson & Eriksson 2000; Aarssen & Jordan 2001), studies aiming to detect environmental conditions that are associated directly with evolutionary or environmentally induced changes in mean…”
• Death without sex—the ‘problem of the small’ and selection for reproductive economy in flowering plants (2008, background): “Studies of herbaceous species have shown in fact, that when developmental stage is controlled, relative allocation to sexual versus vegetative biomass is independent of plant or species size (Clauss and Aarssen 1994; Aarssen and Jordan 2001).”
• Do rock endemic and widespread plant species differ under the Leaf–Height–Seed plant ecology strategy scheme? (2003, background): “…in plants (Poorter & Garnier 1999; Reich et al. 1999), canopy height at maturity, which is related to competitive ability (Rösch et al. 1997) and fecundity (Aarssen & Jordan 2001), and seed mass, which strongly influences dispersal and establishment ability (Jakobsson & Eriksson 2000).”
• Seedling survival and seed size: a synthesis of the literature (2004, background): “A 10-fold increase in seed mass is associated with a 10- fold decrease in the number of seeds that a plant can produce per unit canopy per year (Aarssen & Jordan 2001; Henery & Westoby 2001).”
• Why are there so many small plants? Implications for species coexistence (2006, background): “Competition here does not trade off with anything; the important trade-off is between traits that confer ability to leave descendants across generations of intense competition (Aarssen & Jordan 2001; Aarssen & Keogh 2002; Aarssen 2005b).”
• Impact of abundance weighting on the response of seed traits to climate and land use (2008, background): “Sexual reproduction that contributes to this fitness involves the production and dispersal of seeds, and life-history theory predicts that different environments should select for different optimal patterns of seed traits (e.g. Aarssen & Jordan 2001).”
• Which is a better predictor of plant traits: temperature or precipitation? (2014, unknown): “Seed mass, seed dispersal syndrome and possession of clonal structures capture information about a species' reproductive strategy (Grime & Jeffrey 1965; Grime et al. 1981; Grubb & Burslem 1998; Leishman et al. 2000; Aarssen & Jordan 2001; Wright et al. 2010).”
• The leaf size/number trade‐off in trees (2007, background): “One of the most studied examples for plants is the seed size/number trade-off (e.g. Shipley & Dion 1992; Jakobsson & Eriksson 2000; Aarssen & Jordan 2001; Henery & Westoby 2001; Moles et al .”
• Seed size and plant strategy across the whole life cycle (2006, background): “…and the number of seeds a plant can produce, both per individual per year (Shipley and Dion 1992, Greene and Johnson 1994, Turnbull et al. 1999, Jakobsson and Eriksson 2000) and per square metre of canopy, or per gram of plant biomass, per year (Aarssen and Jordan 2001, Henery and Westoby 2001).”
• Small‐seeded species produce more seeds per square metre of canopy per year, but not per individual per lifetime (2004, background): “The available evidence (and logic) suggest that among coexisting species, the number of seeds produced per unit canopy per year decreases isometrically with the species’ mean seed mass (Aarssen & Jordan 2001; Henery & Westoby 2001).”