Trait‐based approaches have improved our understanding of plant evolution, community
assembly and ecosystem functioning. A major challenge for the upcoming decades is to …

Seed persistence is the survival of seeds in the environment once they have reached
maturity. Seed persistence allows a species, population or genotype to survive long after the …

Humans are altering the composition of biological communities through a variety of activities
that increase rates of species invasions and species extinctions, at all scales, from local to …

Invasion ecology, the study of how organisms spread in habitats to which they are not native,
asks both about the invasiveness of species and the invasibility of habitats: Which species …

Calcareous grasslands are one of the most species-rich habitats and a central issue in
nature conservation management in Europe. Comparative vegetation ecological studies let …

The classic reference on weeds and invasive plants has been revised and updated. The
Third Edition of this authoritative reference provides an in-depth understanding of how …

Due to habitat fragmentation many plant species today occur mainly in small and isolated
populations. Modeling studies predict that small populations will be threatened more …

Summary 1 The species composition of fragmented semi‐natural grasslands may change
over time due to stochastic local extinction and colonization events, successional change …

▪ Abstract Understanding seed physiology is central to reconstructing how angiosperms
have evolved, to characterizing dormancy and germination regimes shared by suites of …

Hector et al.(1) reported on BIODEPTH, a major international experiment on the response of
plant productivity to variation in the number of plant species. They found “an overall loglinear …