Peter J. Bellingham

TL;DR: This work presents a comprehensive model for relative allocation to resprouting vs seeding across a range of disturbance regimes, and suggests that competition between plants that mostly seed vs those that mostly resprout should accentuate differences in allocation along a gradient of disturbance frequency.

TL;DR: It is shown that most tree species are extremely rare, meaning that they may be under serious risk of extinction at current deforestation rates, and a methodological framework for estimating species richness in trees is provided that may help refine species richness estimates of tree-dependent taxa.

TL;DR: Test the prediction that root, stem and leaf traits and relative growth rate respond in unison with soil fertility gradients and determine whether multiple root traits align with growth rate, leaf and stem traits and with each other.

TL;DR: Comparison of rat-free and rat-invaded offshore islands in New Zealand revealed that predation of seab birds by introduced rats reduced forest soil fertility by disrupting sea-to-land nutrient transport by seabirds, and that fertility reduction led to wide-ranging cascading effects on belowground organisms and the ecosystem processes they drive.

TL;DR: The intermediate disturbance hypothesis (IDH) predicts a hump-shaped pattern between community diversity and disturbance, and is central to understanding patterns of species diversity, which is examined in the context of alien plant invasions to suggest a range of strategies can be used to manage diversity.