Seed Ecology /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
1985.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1985. |
| Series: | Outline Studies in Ecology
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Table of Contents:
- 1 Reproductive strategies in plants
- 1.1 Seeds versus vegetative reproduction
- 1.2 The principle of allocation
- 1.3 Reproductive effort
- 1.4 Life histories and fertility schedules
- 1.5 Seed size and number
- 2 Predispersal hazards
- 2.1 Seed losses due to pollination failure
- 2.2 Seed losses due to resource deficiency
- 2.3 Seed losses due to predation
- 2.4 Seed losses due to lethal gene combinations
- 3 Dispersal
- 3.1 Dispersal curves
- 3.2 Dispersal agents
- 3.3 Wind dispersal
- 3.4 External carriage by birds, animals and man
- 3.5 Myrmecochory
- 3.6 Dispersal by frugivory
- 3.7 Long distance dispersal
- 4 Soil seed banks
- 4.1 The seed content of soils
- 4.2 Seed banks in relation to life strategies
- 4.3 Seed longevity
- 4.4 Field longevity experiments
- 4.5 Ecological significance of seed banks
- 5 Dormancy
- 5.1 Ecological significance of dormancy
- 5.2 Types of dormancy
- 5.3 Cyclic changes in dormancy
- 5.4 Influence of parental environment on seed dormancy
- 5.5 Correlative effects
- 6 Germination
- 6.1 The role of gaps in regeneration
- 6.2 Temperature fluctuations
- 6.3 Light quality and periodicity
- 6.4 Microtopography and water relations
- 6.5 The chemical environment
- 7 Seedling establishment
- 7.1 Shade, seed size and seedling growth
- 7.2 Seedling morphology in relation to shade
- 7.3 Competition and seedling survival
- 7.4 Other establishment hazards: drought, burial and predation
- 8 Regeneration and diversity
- 8.1 Coexistence
- 8.2 Gap size
- 8.3 Gap diversity
- 8.4 Timing of disturbance
- 8.5 Environmental fluctuations
- 8.6 Intraspecific spacing
- 8.7 Relative abundance
- References.