Seed germination traits can contribute better to plant community ecology

Why functional ecology should consider all plant organs: An allocation-based perspective

(2015) Michael Kleyer et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Towards an Understanding of Factors Controlling Seed Bank Composition and Longevity in the Alpine Environment

(2015) Ganesh K. Jaganathan et al.   BOTANICAL REVIEW

Early plant recruitment stages set the template for the development of vegetation patterns along a hydrological gradient

(2015) Rob G. A. Fraaije et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Physical dormancy in a changing climate

(2015) Alice R. Hudson et al.   SEED SCIENCE RESEARCH

The ecophysiology of seed persistence: a mechanistic view of the journey to germination or demise

(2014) Rowena L. Long et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Applying trait-based models to achieve functional targets for theory-driven ecological restoration

(2014) Daniel C. Laughlin   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Initial temperature of seed germination as related to species occurrence along a temperature gradient

(2014) Sergey Rosbakh et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Will among-population variation in seed traits improve the chance of species persistence under climate change?

(2014) Anne Cochrane et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

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

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

How well do seed production traits correlate with leaf traits, whole-plant traits and plant ecological strategies?

(2014) Simon Pierce et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Are seed germination and ecological breadth associated? Testing the regeneration niche hypothesis with bromeliads in a heterogeneous neotropical montane vegetation

(2014) Andréa Rodrigues Marques et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide

(2013) N. Pérez-Harguindeguy et al.   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

The temperature dimension of the seed germination niche in fen wetlands

(2013) Eduardo Fernández-Pascual et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Climate warming could shift the timing of seed germination in alpine plants

(2012) Andrea Mondoni et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Regulation of Seed Germination and Seedling Growth by Chemical Signals from Burning Vegetation

(2012) David C. Nelson et al.   Annual Review of Plant Biology

A comparative study of seed morphology in relation to desiccation tolerance and other physiological responses in 71 Eastern Australian rainforest species

(2012) KIM N. HAMILTON et al.   PLANT SPECIES BIOLOGY

Seed bank persistence and climate change

(2012) Mark K.J. Ooi   SEED SCIENCE RESEARCH

Germination traits explain soil seed persistence across species: the case of Mediterranean annual plants in cereal fields

(2011) Arne Saatkamp et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

TRY - a global database of plant traits

(2011) J. KATTGE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Geographic variation in the flood-induced fluctuating temperature requirement for germination in Setaria parviflora seeds

(2011) F. P. O. Mollard et al.   PLANT BIOLOGY

Restoration Seed Banks--A Matter of Scale

(2011) D. J. Merritt et al.   SCIENCE

Germination, Postgermination Adaptation, and Species Ecological Ranges

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

Buoyancy, salt tolerance and germination of coastal seeds: implications for oceanic hydrochorous dispersal

(2010) Lydia K. Guja et al.   FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY

Climate change and plant regeneration from seed

(2010) JEFFREY L. WALCK et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Contemporary climate change in the Sonoran Desert favors cold-adapted species

(2009) SARAH KIMBALL et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Interspecific variation in susceptibility to fungal pathogens in seeds of 10 tree species in the neotropical genus Cecropia

(2009) Rachel E. Gallery et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The LEDA Traitbase: a database of life-history traits of the Northwest European flora

(2008) M. Kleyer et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY