Ecological strategies begin at germination: Traits, plasticity and survival in the first 4 days of plant life

Seedling traits predict drought-induced mortality linked to diversity loss

(2019) Susan Harrison et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Seed and seedling traits have strong impacts on establishment of a perennial bunchgrass in invaded semi‐arid systems

(2019) Elizabeth A. Leger et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Survival rates indicate that correlations between community-weighted mean traits and environments can be unreliable estimates of the adaptive value of traits

(2018) Daniel C. Laughlin et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Allocation, morphology, physiology, architecture: the multiple facets of plant above- and below-ground responses to resource stress

(2018) Grégoire T. Freschet et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

A research agenda for seed-trait functional ecology

(2018) Arne Saatkamp et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Revisiting the Holy Grail: using plant functional traits to understand ecological processes

(2016) Jennifer L. Funk et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Species with greater seed mass are more tolerant of conspecific neighbours: a key driver of early survival and future abundances in a tropical forest

(2016) Edwin Lebrija-Trejos et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

On the link between functional traits and growth rate: meta-analysis shows effects change with plant size, as predicted

(2016) Anaïs Gibert et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Seedling root responses to soil moisture and the identification of a belowground trait spectrum across three growth forms

(2016) Julie E. Larson et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Root structure-function relationships in 74 species: evidence of a root economics spectrum related to carbon economy

(2016) Catherine Roumet et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

How do seed and seedling traits influence germination and emergence parameters in crop species? A comparative analysis

(2016) Antoine Gardarin et al.   SEED SCIENCE RESEARCH

Emergence and early survival of early versus late seral species in Great Basin restoration in two different soil types

(2015) Shauna M. Uselman et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

Global warming and 21st century drying

(2014) Benjamin I. Cook et al.   CLIMATE DYNAMICS

How unusual is the 2012-2014 California drought?

(2014) Daniel Griffin et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

The evolution of seed dormancy: environmental cues, evolutionary hubs, and diversification of the seed plants

(2014) Charles G. Willis et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Life-history trade-offs during the seed-to-seedling transition in a subtropical wet forest community

(2013) Robert Muscarella et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Germination, Postgermination Adaptation, and Species Ecological Ranges

(2010) Kathleen Donohue et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Regeneration niche differentiates functional strategies of desert woody plant species

(2010) Bradley J. Butterfield et al.   OECOLOGIA

Light quality and not quantity segregates germination of grazing increasers from decreasers in Mediterranean grasslands

(2009) Iker Dobarro et al.   ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Contrasting patterns of transgenerational plasticity in ecologically distinct congeners

(2009) Sonia E. Sultan et al.   ECOLOGY

Tolerance to low leaf water status of tropical tree seedlings is related to drought performance and distribution

(2008) Thomas A. Kursar et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Mechanisms of structural change derived from patterns of seedling emergence and mortality in a semi-natural meadow

(2008) Andreas Stampfli et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE