Annette Kolb

TL;DR: The ability of the Lincolnshire models to predict patch occupancy in Vlaams-Brabant was worse for slow than for fast species, indicating that more than a century after forest fragmentation reached its current level an extinction debt persists for species with low rates of population turnover.

TL;DR: The synthesis indicates that many life-history traits of plants vary with latitude but the translation of latitudinal clines into responses to temperature is a crucial step, and integrated approaches of observational studies along temperature gradients, experimental methods and common garden experiments increasingly emerge as the way forward to further the authors' understanding of species and community responses to climate warming.

TL;DR: This analysis of data from 1446 sites in ancient and recent forests across 11 different landscapes in north-eastern North America and Europe shows decreases in beta diversity and in the strength of species‐environment relationships in recent vs. ancient forests.

TL;DR: It is known that seed predators can have important, and often variable, effects on plant population dynamics and trait evolution, however, it still remains to assess how important they are across study systems and relative to other aspects of the plant's biotic and abiotic environment.

TL;DR: Approaches based on life-history traits potentially allow prediction of species' responses to habitat fragmentation and may therefore aid in the assessment of the endangerment of plant species and ultimately in the conservation of biological diversity.