Herbaceous plant strategies in disturbed habitats

By P. Schippers, J. Groenendael, L. Vleeshouwers, R. Hunt. 2001

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Relative climatic, edaphic and management controls of plant functional trait signatures (2009, background): “Disturbed plots were also characterised by smallseeded species (Lavorel et al. 1999; Schippers et al. 2001; Pakeman et al. 2008).”
The state of plant population modelling in light of environmental change (2008, background): “In population modelling studies, the focus on functional traits is surprisingly rare, and often confined to theoretical studies (e.g. Schippers et al., 2001).”
Impact of abundance weighting on the response of seed traits to climate and land use (2008, background): “A higher level of disturbance was associated with a decrease in mean seed mass (Expectation 4, weighted data only), indicating support for the link between seed mass and bet hedging through persistence in the soil – at least for the vegetation of Europe (Hodkinson et al. 1998; Thompson 1987, 2000; V”
Dispersal traits determine plant response to habitat connectivity in an urban landscape (2011, background): “In other systems, such as arable fields with old soils and short disturbance return intervals due to crop rotation, or old systems with little disturbance including forests or heathlands, persistent seed banks or competitive ability may be superior to dispersal (Schippers et al. 2001).”