Seedling recruitment of small-seeded and large-seeded species in forests and pastures in southern Ecuador

Seedling recruitment is a key process of plant regeneration that often depends on plant functional traits, such as seed size. To optimize forest restoration efforts, we need to better understand how seedling recruitment of different seed sizes varies along environmental gradients with strong variati...

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Main Authors: Maciej K. Barczyk, Diana Carolina Acosta-Rojas, Carlos Iván Espinosa, Matthias Schleuning, Eike Lena Neuschulz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2024-03-01
Series:Basic and Applied Ecology
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1439179124000112