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Comparative plant ecology
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The article was published on 1988-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 1150 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Plant ecology.read more
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Ready or Not, Garlic Mustard Is Moving In: Alliaria petiolata as a Member of Eastern North American Forests
TL;DR: Although no single mechanism appears to explain the success of garlic mustard, a combination of plant traits—all slightly different from those of native plants—seems to confer garlic mustard with tremendous success in the new habitats it invades.
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Seed production and population density decline approaching the range‐edge of Cirsium species
Alistair S. Jump,F. Ian Woodward +1 more
TL;DR: Although seed production is reduced at the range edge of C. acaule and C. heterophyllum, peripheral populations of these species may persist through clonal reproduction and low seed production may interact with reduced availability of favourable habitat to limit range expansion in these species.
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Seed size and shape are not related to persistence in soil in Australia in the same way as in Britain
TL;DR: For Australian species, persistent seeds were not smaller or more compact than transient seeds when compared across all species or when compared using phylogenetically independent contrasts (PICs), suggesting the natural history of burial and disturbance operates differently in British and Australian habitats.
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Local adaptation in the monocarpic perennial Carlina vulgaris at different spatial scales across Europe.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied population differentiation and local adaptation of C. vulgaris at two spatial scales in the monocarpic grassland perennial Carlina vulgaris in five European regions (northwestern Czech Republic, central Germany, Luxembourg, southern Sweden and northwestern Switzerland).
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Comparing plant life histories using elasticity analysis: the importance of life span and the number of life-cycle stages.
TL;DR: The ways in which the number of life-cycle stages chosen to describe a species (transition matrix dimensionality) might influence the interpretation of comparisons are analyzed.