The ecology and significance of below-ground bud banks in plants

JP Ott, J Klimešová, DC Hartnett - Annals of botany, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Background Below-ground bud banks have experienced much recent interest due to
discoveries that they (1) account for the majority of seasonal population renewal in many …

Regeneration: an overlooked aspect of trait‐based plant community assembly models

JE Larson, JL Funk - Journal of Ecology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the disproportionate influence that propagule production, dispersal, seed‐to‐
seedling recruitment and vegetative reproduction can have on plant population and …

Quantifying ecological memory in plant and ecosystem processes

K Ogle, JJ Barber, GA Barron‐Gafford… - Ecology …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The role of time in ecology has a long history of investigation, but ecologists have largely
restricted their attention to the influence of concurrent abiotic conditions on rates and …

Sensitivity of grassland plant community composition to spatial vs. temporal variation in precipitation

EE Cleland, SL Collins, TL Dickson, EC Farrer… - Ecology, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Climate gradients shape spatial variation in the richness and composition of plant
communities. Given future predicted changes in climate means and variability, and likely …

Bud banks and their role in vegetative regeneration–a literature review and proposal for simple classification and assessment

J Klimes - Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and …, 2007 - Elsevier
While sexual regeneration of plants after disturbance is relatively well understood,
vegetative regeneration has attracted some attention only recently. Its role along …

Precipitation–productivity relationships and the duration of precipitation anomalies: an underappreciated dimension of climate change

AJ Felton, AK Knapp, MD Smith - Global Change Biology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In terrestrial ecosystems, climate change forecasts of increased frequencies and magnitudes
of wet and dry precipitation anomalies are expected to shift precipitation–net primary …

Effects of experimental rainfall manipulations on Chihuahuan Desert grassland and shrubland plant communities

S Báez, SL Collins, WT Pockman, JE Johnson… - Oecologia, 2013 - Springer
Aridland ecosystems are predicted to be responsive to both increases and decreases in
precipitation. In addition, chronic droughts may contribute to encroachment of native C 3 …

A handbook for the standardised sampling of plant functional traits in disturbance-prone ecosystems, with a focus on open ecosystems

BJ Wigley, T Charles-Dominique… - Australian Journal of …, 2020 - CSIRO Publishing
Plant functional traits provide a valuable tool to improve our understanding of ecological
processes at a range of scales. Previous handbooks on plant functional traits have …

Soil seed banks, alternative stable state theory, and ecosystem resilience

M Ma, SL Collins, Z Ratajczak, G Du - Bioscience, 2021 - academic.oup.com
In restoration ecology, the transition from desired to degraded state is based solely on the
composition of the aboveground plant community, whereas belowground propagules are …

Lagged effects of experimental warming and doubled precipitation on annual and seasonal aboveground biomass production in a tallgrass prairie

RA Sherry, E Weng, JA ARNONE III… - Global Change …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Global climate change is expected to result in a greater frequency of extreme weather, which
can cause lag effects on aboveground net primary production (ANPP). However, our …