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1. Differential dispersal and survival of an African mistletoe: does host size matter

Author:
Roxburgh, Lizanne; Nicolson, Sue W.
Source:
Plant ecology 2008 v.195 no.1 pp. 21-31
ISSN:
1385-0237
Subject:
planting,   etc   ; Acacia sieberiana; Santalales; birds; feeding behavior; hosts; probability; savannas; seed germination; seedlings; seeds; tree age; trees; Zambia;     Show all 14 Subjects
Abstract:
... Mistletoes typically grow on tall old trees. Does this positive size-prevalence relationship result simply from the accumulation of infections as trees age, or do other factors related to tree size lead to differential dispersal, germination, establishment or survival of mistletoes? We examined patterns of infection prevalence and intensity of the mistletoe Phragmanthera dschallensis on its main h ...
DOI:
10.1007/s11258-007-9295-8

2. Insect and small mammal herbivores limit tree establishment in northern Mongolian steppe

Author:
Dulamsuren, Choimaa; Hauck, Markus; Mühlenberg, Michael
Source:
Plant ecology 2008 v.195 no.1 pp. 143-156
ISSN:
1385-0237
Subject:
planting,   etc   ; Larix sibirica; Lymantria dispar; case studies; drought; edge effects; forests; grasshoppers; grazing; growing season; heat; herbivores; humans; insect larvae; meadows; mortality; mountains; risk; rodents; seedlings; seeds; small mammals; soil air; sowing; spring; steppes; taiga; temperature; topographic slope; tree growth; trees; Mongolia;     Show all 32 Subjects
Abstract:
... The extent to which human activities expanded the range of central and north-eastern Asian steppes into the forest is controversial. Natural versus anthropogenic causes of the inhibition of tree growth were investigated in a case study in the western Khentey Mountains in montane meadow steppe on sun-exposed southern slopes, representing treeless outposts within the northern Mongolian mountain taig ...
DOI:
10.1007/s11258-007-9311-z

3. The interacting effects of temperature, ground disturbance, and herbivory on seedling establishment: implications for treeline advance with climate warming

Author:
Munier, Anne; Hermanutz, Luise; Jacobs, John D.; Lewis, Keith
Source:
Plant ecology 2010 v.210 no.1 pp. 19-30
ISSN:
1385-0237
Subject:
planting,   etc   ; Picea mariana; air; alpine tundra; biogeography; conifers; disturbed soils; ecosystems; forest trees; forests; global warming; habitats; herbivores; islands; mortality; mountains; recruitment; seed germination; seedbeds; seedling emergence; seedling growth; seedlings; seeds; temperature; treeline;     Show all 25 Subjects
Abstract:
... Thermal control of treeline position is mediated by local environmental and ecological factors, making trends in treeline migration difficult to extrapolate geographically. We investigated the ecological dynamics of conifer establishment at treeline in the Mealy Mountains (Labrador, Canada) and the potential for its expansion with climate warming. Available seedbed and tree seedling emergence in t ...
DOI:
10.1007/s11258-010-9724-y

4. The coupling of recruitment and disturbance by fire in two resprouting Proteaceae species

Author:
Denham, Andrew J.; Whelan, Robert J.; Auld, Tony D.; Denham, Robert J.
Source:
Plant ecology 2011 v.212 no.3 pp. 471-481
ISSN:
1385-0237
Subject:
planting,   etc   ; Banksia; Telopea speciosissima; canopy; fires; functional diversity; germination; habitats; invertebrates; seed predation; seedlings; seeds; species recruitment; vertebrates;     Show all 14 Subjects
Abstract:
... Recruitment in plant populations is often tightly coupled to major disturbances such as fires. For species with persistent seed banks, fire-related cues may allow or enhance germination. The litter layer influences germination and may modify the impact of seed predators on seeds and seedlings. The litter layer is obviously affected by fire, providing one mechanism by which disturbance can determin ...
DOI:
10.1007/s11258-010-9838-2

5. Seedling emergence and establishment of Pinus sylvestris in the Mongolian forest-steppe ecotone

Author:
Dulamsuren, Choimaa; Hauck, Markus; Leuschner, Christoph
Source:
Plant ecology 2013 v.214 no.1 pp. 139-152
ISSN:
1385-0237
Subject:
planting,   etc   ; Larix sibirica; Pinus sylvestris; allelochemicals; drought; forests; global warming; grasslands; grazing; herbivores; insects; irrigation; livestock; mortality; plant pathogenic fungi; rodents; seed predation; seedling emergence; seedlings; seeds; soil water; sowing; trees; Mongolia;     Show all 24 Subjects
Abstract:
... The potential of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) for regeneration and encroachment onto dry grasslands in the forest-steppe ecotone was experimentally studied at the south-eastern distribution limit of the species in Mongolia. The experiment consisted of a sowing and planting (2-year old seedlings) assay at two different distances from the forest line and manipulation of the water supply by irrigati ...
DOI:
10.1007/s11258-012-0152-z

6. Translocation of Limonium perplexum (Plumbaginaceae), a threatened coastal endemic

Author:
Laguna, Emilio; Navarro, Albert; Pérez-Rovira, Patricia; Ferrando, Inmaculada; Ferrer-Gallego, P. Pablo
Source:
Plant ecology 2016 v.217 no.10 pp. 1183-1194
ISSN:
1385-0237
Subject:
planting,   etc   ; Limonium; endangered species; halophytes; microhabitats; rain; risk; seedlings; seeds; soil; storms; triploidy; wind; Spain;     Show all 14 Subjects
Abstract:
... Limonium perplexum Sáez and Rosselló is an herbaceous—perennial to annual—, triploid apomictic halophyte which only lives on a small outcrop (40 sq. m.) of a low coastal cliff in Serra d’Irta (Peñíscola, Castellón, Valencian Community, Spain). The population has been observed to fluctuate between 19 and 383 individuals, and the site is affected by collapse risk caused by marine storms. To save thi ...
DOI:
10.1007/s11258-016-0643-4

7. Can seed caching enhance seedling survival of Indian ricegrass (Achnatherum hymenoides) through intraspecific facilitation?

Author:
Longland, William S.; Dimitri, Lindsay A.
Source:
Plant ecology 2016 v.217 no.12 pp. 1523-1532
ISSN:
1385-0237
Subject:
planting,   etc   ; Achnatherum hymenoides; correlation; deserts; field experimentation; granivores; heat; rodents; seedlings; seeds; small mammals; species recruitment; summer; Nevada;     Show all 14 Subjects
Abstract:
... Positive interactions among individual plants (facilitation) may often enhance seedling survival in stressful environments. Many granivorous small mammal species cache groups of seeds for future consumption in shallowly buried scatterhoards, and seeds of many plant species germinate and establish aggregated clusters of seedlings from such caches. Scatterhoards made by desert heteromyid rodents pro ...
DOI:
10.1007/s11258-016-0665-y
CHORUS:
10.1007/s11258-016-0665-y