Environmental conditions experienced by mother plants determine germination patterns.
Here, we investigated the germination ecology of Miconia albicans (Melastomataceae), a …

Germination timing is determined by several plant life‐history traits. Seed dormancy
regulates the time and place of early plant development and spreads recruitment risks over …

Species with mostly asexual reproduction are interesting subjects for germination studies
since variation would be more easily linked to environmental factors. Miconia ferruginata …

Soil seed banks are an important source of new individuals for many plant populations and
contribute to future genetic variability. In general, the size and persistence of soil seed banks …

Few studies address the ecology of herbs of Cerrado grasslands, which are ecosystems
where the long dry season, high temperatures, insolation, fire and invasive grasses greatly …

Plant species are shifting their ranges in response to global climate change, thus
intensifying the need to predict such changes accurately. As the environmental requirements …

Question In seasonal rainfall systems, seed dormancy is a strategy to avoid germination and
seedling emergence in the dry season. Grass species in Brazilian savannas (Cerrado) show …

Delayed seed germination ('dispersal in time'), as a component of a plant's germination
strategy, was studied in dicotyledoneous species of a temperate rainforest flora in Chiloé …

Pseudobombax tomentosum and P. longiflorum are common trees in the Cerrado region,
but the former species is more common in forest edges while the later is present in open …

In tropical dry forests, although seed germination and seedling establishment are in general
limited by the seasonal availability of water, high interspecific variability, nonetheless, exists …