Seed size and plant strategy across the whole life cycle

By A. Moles, M. Westoby. 2006

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

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The biogeography and filtering of woody plant functional diversity in North and South America (2012, background): “Seed mass indicates where a species lies along the spectrum of species producing many small seeds or few large seeds per unit energy (Venable, 1996; Moles & Westoby, 2006).”
Functional distinctiveness of major plant lineages (2014, background): “Across all species, seed mass and maximum height were moderately linked with large seeds associated with large stature adults, as found previously (Moles & Westoby 2006; Falster, Moles & Westoby 2008).”
Functional traits explain variation in plant life history strategies (2013, background): “R evidence for global patterns of functional variation in plants, such as the leaf economics spectrum (1, 2), the wood economics spectrum (3), and the seed size–seed number tradeoff (4, 5), has convinced many ecologists that functional traits offer the best available approach for achieving a general”
Regeneration: an overlooked aspect of trait‐based plant community assembly models (2016, background): “…measured and often positively correlated with seedling survival but negatively correlated with seedling growth rate and seed output (reviewed in Moles & Westoby 2006), a trade-off which has been identified as one of four major dimensions explaining ecological variation among plant species…”
Interspecific variation in functional traits, not climatic differences among species ranges, determines demographic rates across 44 temperate and Mediterranean tree species (2010, background): “However, the seedlings of large-seeded species are better able to cope with many of the stresses encountered during establishment and usually have higher survival through early seedling establishment (Moles & Westoby 2004, 2006).”
Clonal growth and sexual reproduction: tradeoffs and environmental constraints (2015, background): “Additionally, seed number can be expressed in two ways, viz. per individual and per unit canopy area, with these measures having rather diff erent ecological meanings (discussed by Moles and Westoby 2006).”
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): “…several investigators have observed a positive interspecific relationship between plant size and seed mass (Mazer 1989; Thompson & Rabinowitz 1989; Rees 1996; Totland & Birks 1996; Moles & Westoby 2004, 2006; Grubb, Metcalfe & Coomes 2005; Vamosi, Mazer & Cornejo 2008; Queenborough et al. 2009).”
Community assembly and shifts in plant trait distributions across an environmental gradient in coastal California (2009, background): “…maximum plant height, which is related to successional status and shade tolerance (Falster and Westoby 2005, Preston et al. 2006), and seed size, which is important for regeneration, the competition–colonization trade-off (Coomes and Grubb 2003), and tied to plant stature (Moles and Westoby 2006).”
Why functional ecology should consider all plant organs: An allocation-based perspective (2015, background): “Examples re the trade-offs between seed size and seed number, leaf rea and leaf density, stem volume and stem mass (e.g. oles & Westoby 2006; Shipley, Lechowicz, Wright, & eich 2006).”
Seed predators limit plant recruitment in Neotropical savannas (2011, positive): “Previous ambiguous results (reviewed by Hulme 1998a, Moles et al. 2003) may stem from the fact that large seeds can reﬂ ect investments in traits other than those related to defense against predators (Moles and Westoby 2006).”
Elevation gradient of successful plant traits for colonizing alpine summits under climate change (2013, background): “Diaspore morphology Categorical awn (awn, hooks, calyx), fleshy, nude (no appendage), pappus, wings (wings or fringes) Müller-Schneider (1986); Klotz et al (2002); Vogler (1901); authors’ attributions Flowering time length Quantitative Number of months Landolt et al (2010) Dispersal time length Quan”