Ongoing changes in temperature and precipitation regime may have a strong impact on
vulnerable life-history stages such as germination, especially in alpine regions. Differences …

Plant establishment and subsequent persistence are strongly influenced by germination
strategy, especially in temporally and spatially heterogeneous environments. Germination …

Methods We investigated seed traits, including seed mass, shape, and germination
characteristics across 50 alpine plant species in the laboratory. A field experiment using …

Assumptions about the germination ecology of alpine plants are presently based on
individual species and local studies. A current challenge is to synthesise, at the global level …

Functional plant traits are used in ecology to explain population dynamics in time and space.
However, because the germination niche is an essential stage in alpine plant life cycles and …

Understanding the key aspects of plant regeneration from seeds is crucial in assessing
species assembly to their habitats. However, the regenerative traits of seed dormancy and …

Background Global warming can cause variation in plant functional traits due to phenotypic
plasticity or rapid microevolutionary change. Seed mass represents a fundamental axis of …

Species employ seed dispersal and dormancy to mitigate competition and extinction risks in
uncertain environments. Theoretical insights suggest a trade-off in that efficiently dispersed …

Seed germination strategies vary dramatically among species but relatively little is known
about how germination traits correlate with other elements of plant strategy systems …

Seed germination traits in alpine grasslands are poorly understood, despite the sensitivity of
these communities to climate change. We hypothesise that germination traits predict species …