期刊
ECOLOGY
卷 90, 期 8, 页码 2129-2138出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1890/08-1436.1
关键词
Beverton-Holt function; establishment limitation; Hieracium lepidulum; microsite; plant recruitment; recruitment function; safe site availability; seed-addition experiments; seed limitation; self-thinning
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- Bio-Protection Research Centre
- Miss E. L. Hellaby Indigenous Grasslands Research Trust
The extent to which plant populations are seed vs. establishment limited can be understood by quantifying the recruitment function, describing the number of seedlings that establish as a function of the number of seeds added. Here, we derive a general equation for the recruitment function based on a mechanistic model describing how the availability of safe sites (sites suitable for germination and establishment) interacts with the number and distribution of seeds added to a plot to determine the number of recruits. The parameters of this recruitment function have a direct biological interpretation that can provide insight into the processes limiting recruitment in plant populations.
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