1 It is useful to distinguish between the immediate effects of species richness on ecosystems
and those which become apparent on a longer time scale, described here as filter and …

Vegetation succession has been the subject of many papers and several reviews.
Nevertheless, there is much confusion in the field of terminology. The concept of vegetation …

It is a widely held belief that a climax vegetation of closed forest systems covered the
lowlands of Central and Western Europe before humans intervened in prehistoric times to …

This book is about the regeneration of plants from seed under field conditions. It attempts to
give a reasonably balanced overview of the many aspects of this broad topic. The first …

In this study we analyse relationships between seed number, seed size, seedling size and
recruitment success in grassland plants. The often hypothesised trade‐off between seed …

Within a taxonomic assemblage, locally abundant species tend to be widespread and locally
rare species tend to be restricted in their distribution. Although frequently treated en masse …

The mechanisms by which plants species coexist in botanically diverse communities has
been the focus of intense theoretical and empirical interest (Harper 1977; Grubb et al. 1982; …

Worldwide declines in bird numbers have recently renewed interest in how well bird–plant
mutualisms are functioning. In New Zealand, it has been argued that bird pollination was …

We develop statistical methods appropriate for the analysis of spatially structured population
data. The methods are used to study the structure and dynamics of a four-species annual …

Although an interspecific trade-off between competitive and colonizing ability can permit
multispecies coexistence, whether this mechanism controls the structure of natural systems …