An intraspecific application of the leaf-height-seed ecology strategy scheme to forest herbs along a latitudinal gradient

Ecography

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 132-140

  De Frenne, Pieter ^a   Graae, Bente J ^b,c   Kolb, Annette ^d   Shevtsova, Anna ^b,e   Baeten, Lander ^a   Brunet, Jörg ^f   Chabrerie, Olivier ^g   Cousins, Sara A O ^h   Decocq, Guillaume ^g   Dhondt, Rob ^a   Diekmann, Martin ^d   Gruwez, Robert ^a   Heinken, Thilo ⁱ   Hermy, Martin ^j   Öster, Mathias ^h   Saguez, Robert ^g   Stanton, Sharon ^j   Tack, Wesley ^a   Vanhellemont, Margot ^a   Verheyen, Kris ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^f SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^g UNIVERSITÉ DE PICARDIE JULES VERNE   (France)

^h STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^j UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOREST COVER; GRASS; HEIGHT; HERB; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; LEAF AREA; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEED; SOIL NUTRIENT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

FRANCE; SWEDEN;

ANEMONE; ANEMONE NEMOROSA; MILIUM; MILIUM EFFUSUM;

EID: 79952402748     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2010.06399.x     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. Austin, M. P. 1999. The potential contribution of vegetation ecology to biodiversity research. Ecography 22: 465-484.
2. Baskin, C. C. and Baskin, J. M. 1998. Seeds. Ecology, biogeography, and evolution of dormancy and germination. San Diego Academic. Press.
3. Brunet, J. 2007. Plant colonization in heterogeneous landscapes: an 80-year perspective on restoration of broadleaved forest vegetation. J. Appl. Ecol. 44: 563-572.
4. Clevering, O. A. et al. 2001. Geographic variation in growth responses in Phragmites australis. Aquat. Bot. 69: 89-108.
5. Cornelissen, J. H. C. et al. 2003. A handbook of protocols for standardised and easy measurement of plant functional traits worldwide. Aust. J. Bot. 51: 335-380.
6. Craine, J. M. 2005. Reconciling plant strategy theories of Grime and Tilman. J. Ecol. 93: 1041-1052.
7. De Frenne, P. et al. 2009. Unravelling the effects of temperature, latitude and local environment on the reproduction of forest herbs. Global Ecol. Biogeogr. 18: 641-651.
8. De Frenne, P. et al. 2010. Significant effects of temperature on the reproductive output of the forest herb Anemone nemorosa L. For. Ecol. Manage. 259: 809-817.
9. Diaz, S. et al. 2004. The plant traits that drive ecosystems: evidence from three continents. J. Veg. Sci. 15: 295-304.
10. Etterson, J. R. 2004. Evolutionary potential of Chamaecrista fasciculata in relation to climate change. 1. Clinal patterns of selection along an environmental gradient in the Great Plains. Evolution 58: 1446-1458.
11. Falster, D. S. and Westoby, M. 2003. Plant height and evolutionary games. Trends Ecol. Evol. 18: 337-343.
12. FAO. 2005. NewLocClim. Ver. 1.10. Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations.
13. Freschet, G. T. et al. 2010. Evidence of the 'plant economics spectrum' in a subarctic flora. J. Ecol. 98: 362-373.
14. Fukami, T. and Wardle, D. A. 2005. Long-term ecological dynamics: reciprocal insights from natural and anthropogenic gradients. Proc. R. Soc. B. 272: 2105-2115.
15. Garnier, E. et al. 2001. A standardized protocol for the determination of specific leaf area and leaf dry matter content. Funct. Ecol. 15: 688-695.
16. Garnier, E. et al. 2004. The leaf-height-seed plant ecology strategy scheme as applied to species from a Mediterranean old-field succession. - In: Arianoutsou, M. and Papanastasis, V. P. (eds), Ecology, conservation and management of mediterranean climate ecosystems. Mill Press, pp. 1-11.
17. Golodets, C. et al. 2009. A community-level test of the leaf-height-seed ecology strategy scheme in relation to grazing conditions. J. Veg. Sci. 20: 392-402.
18. Graae, B. J. and Sunde, P. B. 2000. The impact of forest continuity and management on forest floor vegetation evaluated by species traits. Ecography 23: 720-731.
19. Graae, B. J. et al. 2009. Germination requirements and seed mass of slow- and fast-colonizing temperate forest herbs along a latitudinal gradient. Ecoscience 16: 248-257.
20. Grime, J. P. 1974. Vegetation classification by reference to strategies. Nature 250: 26-31.
21. Grime, J. P. et al. 1988. Comparative plant ecology. A functional approach to common British species. Unwin Hyman.
22. Heinken, T. and Raudnitschka, D. 2002. Do wild ungulates contribute to the dispersal of vascular plants in central European forests by epizoochory? A case study in NE Germany. German J. For. Sci. 121: 179-194.
23. Hox, J. J. 2002. Multilevel analysis. Techniques and applications. Taylor and Francis.
24. Hultén, E. and Fries, M. 1986. Atlas of north European vascular plants: north of the Tropic of Cancer I-III. Koeltz Scientific Books.
25. Jansson, R. and Dynesius, M. 2002. The fate of clades in a world of recurrent climatic change: Milankovitch oscillations and evolution. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 33: 741-777.
26. Jardim, A. V. F. and Batalha, M. A. 2008. Can we predict dispersal guilds based on the leaf-height-seed scheme in a disjunct cerrado woodland?. Brazilian J. Biol. 68: 553-559.
27. Kudo, G. et al. 2008. Linkages between phenology, pollination, photosynthesis and reproduction in deciduous forest understorey plants. Ecology 89: 321-331.
28. Lavergne, S. et al. 2003. Do rock endemic and widespread plant species differ under the leaf-height-seed plant ecology strategy scheme?. Ecol. Lett. 6: 398-404.
29. Lavorel, S. et al. 1997. Plant functional classifications: from general groups to specific groups based on response to disturbance. Trends Ecol. Evol. 12: 474-478.
30. Lindsey, A. A. and Newman, J. E. 1956. Use of official weather data in spring time - temperature analysis of an Indiana phenological record. Ecology 37: 812-823.
31. Lord, J. et al. 1997. Larger seeds in tropical floras: consistent patterns independent of growth form and dispersal mode. J. Biogeogr. 24: 205-211.
32. McGill, B. J. et al. 2006. Rebuilding community ecology from functional traits. Trends Ecol. Evol. 21: 178-185.
33. Mills, A. M. 2008. Latitudinal gradients of biologically useful semi-darkness. Ecography 31: 578-582.
34. Miyazawa, K. and Lechowicz, M. J. 2004. Comparative seedling ecology of eight North American spruce (Picea) species in relation to their geographic ranges. Ann. Bot. 94: 635-644.
35. Moles, A. T. and Westoby, M. 2003. Latitude, seed predation and seed mass. J. Biogeogr. 30: 105-128.
36. Moles, A. T. et al. 2007. Global patterns in seed size. Global Ecol. Biogeogr. 16: 109-116.
37. Moles, A. T. et al. 2009a. Global patterns in plant height. J. Ecol. 97: 923-932.
38. Moles, A. T. et al. 2009b. Is there a latitudinal gradient in seed production?. Ecography 97: 923-932.
39. Moog, D. et al. 2005. Application of CSR- and LHS-strategies for the distinction of differently managed grasslands. Basic Appl. Ecol. 6: 133-143.
40. Murray, B. R. et al. 2004. Geographical gradients in seed mass in relation to climate. J. Biogeogr. 31: 379-388.
41. Ordoñez, J. C. et al. 2009. A global study of relationships between leaf traits, climate and soil measures of nutrient fertility. Global Ecol. Biogeogr. 18: 137-149.
42. Pakeman, R. J. et al. 2008. Impact of abundance weighting on the response of seed traits to climate and land use. J. Ecol. 96: 355-366.
43. Poorter, H. et al. 2009. Causes and consequences of variation in Leaf Mass per Area (LMA): a meta-analysis. New Phytol. 182: 565-588.
44. Quinn, G. P. and Keough, M. J. 2002. Experimental design and data analysis for biologists. Cambridge Univ. Press.
45. Raunkiaer, C. 1937. Plant life forms. Clarendon Press.
46. Sherry, R. A. et al. 2007. Divergence of reproductive phenology under climate warming. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 104: 198-202.
47. Tautenhahn, S. et al. 2008. On the biogeography of seed mass in Germany - distribution patterns and environmental correlates. Ecography 31: 457-468.
48. Verheyen, K. et al. 2003. Response of forest plant species to land-use change: a life-history trait-based approach. J. Ecol. 91: 563-577.
49. Westoby, M. 1998. A leaf-height-seed (LHS) plant ecology strategy scheme. Plant Soil 199: 213-227.
50. Westoby, M. et al. 1996. Comparative eology of seed size and dispersal. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 351: 1309-1317.