Seedling stage strategies as a means of habitat specialization in herbaceous plants.

The regeneration niche has been little investigated in studies of community assembly and plant distribution. We examined adaptive associations between seedling traits and habitat specialization. Two habitat contrasts were investigated across several evolutionary lineages of angiosperms: species spec...

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Main Authors: Dirk-Jan ten Brink, Hans Henrik Bruun
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3146528?pdf=render