DIFFERENCES IN SEED BIOLOGY OF ANNUAL PLANTS IN ARID LANDS: A KEY INGREDIENT OF THE STORAGE EFFECT

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Seasonal priority effects: implications for invasion and restoration in a semi-arid system. (2012, background): “In semi-arid plant communities where interannual climate variation is common, seed dormancymay buffer populations against loss of individuals germinating under inopportune conditions (Keeley 1991; Pake & Venable 1996; Facelli, Chesson & Barnes 2005).”
Climate change and bet‐hedging: interactions between increased soil temperatures and seed bank persistence (2009, background): “Both dormancy and germination mechanisms can contribute to the maintenance of longlived seed banks by ensuring that germination is either delayed until the onset of favourable conditions, or that the seed bank does not germinate all at once (Baskin & Baskin, 1998; Fenner & Thompson, 2005).”
The functional role of soil seed banks in natural communities. (2014, background): “Seeds can play further important roles in coexistence through the storage effect since differences in germination responses to environmental variation can be the temporal niches providing the mechanism of differential species responses to the environment (Facelli et al., 2005).”