Seed Bank and Understorey Species Composition in a Semi-arid Environment: The Effect of Shrub Age and Rainfall
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Understorey vegetation in patches of Retama sphaerocarpa shrubs in semi-arid environments is dependent on the overstorey shrub life history and the eAect of the canopy on understorey species diversity in the field and its relationships with the soil seed bank is investigated, suggesting that the soil Seed Bank is rather uniform and that the shrub canopy strongly selects which species appear in theunderstorey.About:
This article is published in Annals of Botany.The article was published on 2000-10-01 and is currently open access. It has received 199 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Shrub & Species diversity.read more
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Changes in plant interactions along a gradient of environmental stress
TL;DR: Investigation of changes in competition and facilitation between a leguminous shrub and its associate understorey species along an environmental gradient in semi-arid southeast Spain shows a change in the net balance of the interaction, from clearly positive in the water-stressed, infertile environment to neutral or even negative in the more fertile habitat.
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A Definitive Book on Seed Ecology@@@Seeds: Ecology, Biogeography, and Evolution of Dormancy and Germination
TL;DR: A Geographical Perspective on Germination Ecology: Tropical and Subtropical Zones and Biogeographical and Evolutionary Aspects of Seed Dormancy.
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Can the seed bank be used for ecological restoration? An overview of seed bank characteristics in European communities
Beatrijs Bossuyt,Olivier Honnay +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed seed bank studies (1990-2006) to determine if they provide useful and reliable results to predict restoration success, including seed density, species richness, diversity and evenness of the seed bank community.
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Shrub facilitation of desert land restoration in the Horqin Sand Land of Inner Mongolia
TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper investigated the effects of shrub canopy on soil properties, organic litter, seed bank and understory herbaceous community properties in the Horqin Sand Land, Mongolia.
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Shifting species interactions in terrestrial dryland ecosystems under altered water availability and climate change.
Kevin E. McCluney,Jayne Belnap,Scott L. Collins,Angélica L. González,Elizabeth M. Hagen,J. Nathaniel Holland,Burt P. Kotler,Fernando T. Maestre,Stanley D. Smith,Blair O. Wolf +9 more
TL;DR: Dryland ecosystems occupy more than one‐third of the Earth's land mass, are greatly affected by changes in water availability, and are predicted to be hotspots of climate change, so it is imperative to understand the effects of environmental change on these globally significant ecosystems.
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Seeds. Ecology, Biogeography, and, Evolution of Dormancy and Germination 2nd ed
Carol C. Baskin,Jerry M. Baskin +1 more
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Seeds: Ecology, Biogeography, and, Evolution of Dormancy and Germination
Carol C. Baskin,Jerry M. Baskin +1 more
TL;DR: A Geographical Perspective on Germination Ecology: Tropical and Sub-tropical Zones as discussed by the authors, Temperate and Arctic Zones, and Semi-Arctic Zones: Temperate, Subtropical, and Arctic zones.
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Positive interactions in communities.
TL;DR: Evidence for the importance of positive interactions - facilitations - in community organization and dynamics has accrued to the point where it warrants formal inclusion into community ecology theory, as it has been in evolutionary biology.
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Competition and Biodiversity in Spatially Structured Habitats
TL;DR: The spatial competition hypothesis seems to explain the coexistence of the numerous plant species that compete for a single limiting resource in the grasslands of Cedar Creek Natural History Area and provides a testable, alternative explanation for other high diversity communities, such as tropical forests.
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Competition and facilitation: a synthetic approach to interactions in plant communities
TL;DR: The roles of life stage, physiology, indirect interactions, and the physical environment on the balance of competition and facilitation in plant communities are discussed.
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