Why are there so many small plants? Implications for species coexistence

By Lonnie W. Aarssen, B. Schamp, Jason Pither. 2006

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

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Comparative biogeography of New Zealand trees: species richness, height, leaf traits and range sizes (2010, background): “All the woody floras examined here show a similar strongly right-skewed height distribution approximating a reverse-J curve, and therefore fitting the general pattern for most classes of organisms (Fig. 2; Aarssen et al. 2006).”
Death without sex—the ‘problem of the small’ and selection for reproductive economy in flowering plants (2008, background): “even though the sizes of small species are often constrained further by competition with larger species for light and soil resources, these larger species in turn have their population densities constrained further by competition with smaller species for offspring establishment space (Aarssen 1989; ”
Dispersion of traits related to competitive ability in an old‐field plant community (2007, background): “However, it has been pointed out that, in general, relatively small plant species predominate in nature (Aarssen & Schamp 2002; Aarssen et al . 2006 ), and that studies implicating species size have seldom measured the reproductive component of fitness in the context of competition (Aarssen & Keogh”
Global patterns in plant height (2009, background): “…important difference between this study and Niklas et al. (2003), as small herbaceous species make up the majority of the diversity at high latitudes (Aarssen et al. 2006 and this study), and it is only the very shortest species that are missing from the highly productive sites in this study (Fig.”
The leaf size/number trade‐off in trees (2007, background): “One possible explanation is based on historical habitat availability affecting speciation opportunity (Aarssen et al. 2006), i.”