A goal in trait‐based ecology is to understand and predict plant community responses to
environmental change; however, diversity stored within seed banks that may expand or limit …

Question Seed banks often serve as reservoirs of taxonomic and genetic diversity that buffer
plant populations and influence post‐disturbance vegetation trajectories; yet evaluating their …

Aim Climate and land use are key determinants of biodiversity, with past and ongoing
changes posing serious threats to global ecosystems. Unlike most other organism groups …

Ecologists have worked to ascribe function to the variation found in plant populations,
communities and ecosystems across environments for at least the past century. The vast …

Soil seed banks represent reservoirs of diversity in the soil that may increase resilience of
communities to global changes. Two global change factors that can dramatically alter the …

Seedling recruitment is a critical driver of population dynamics and community assembly, yet
we know little about functional traits that define different recruitment strategies. For the first …

Persistent seed banks are a key plant regeneration strategy, buffering environmental
variation to allow population and species persistence. Understanding seed bank functioning …

Soil seed banks offer plants the possibility to disperse through time. This has implications for
population and community dynamics, as recognised by ecological and evolutionary theory …

Most terrestrial plants disperse by seeds, yet the relationship between seed mass, seed
dispersal traits, and plant dispersion is poorly understood. We quantified seed traits for 48 …

A fundamental challenge in the field of ecology involves understanding the adaptive traits
and life history stages regulating the population dynamics of species across diverse …