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Trade-offs in interspecific comparisons in plant ecology and how plants overcome proposed constraints by Grubb, Peter J.

“…Comparative studies on plant species have not distinguished between two inherently different applications of the idea of a trade-off. In the first case, the…”
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Disturbance regimes, gap-demanding trees and seed mass related to tree height in warm temperate rain forests worldwide by Grubb, Peter J., Bellingham, Peter J., Kohyama, Takashi S., Piper, Frida I., Valido, Alfredo

“…ABSTRACT For tropical lowland rain forests, Denslow (1987) hypothesized that in areas with large‐scale disturbances tree species with a high demand for light…”
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Colonization, tolerance, competition and seed-size variation within functional groups by Coomes, David A., Grubb, Peter J.

“…Ecologists interested in seed size have generally contrasted functional groups of plants but, recently, some have focussed on explaining the large range of…”
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combined impacts of deep shade and drought on the growth and biomass allocation of shade-tolerant woody seedlings by Sack, L, Grubb, P.J

“…To test whether the impact of drought on the growth and biomass allocation of first-season shade-tolerant woody seedlings in low irradiance differs from that…”
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Impacts of root competition in forests and woodlands: a theoretical framework and review of experiments by Coomes, David A., Grubb, Peter J.

“…Light is widely considered to be the most important factor limiting the performance of plants on the floors of forests and woodlands, but the roles of nutrient…”
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Seed Dormancy and Delayed Flowering in Monocarpic Plants: Selective Interactions in a Stochastic Environment by Rees, Mark, Childs, Dylan Z., Metcalf, Jessica C., Rose, Karen E., Sheppard, Andy W., Grubb, Peter J.

“…We explore the effects of temporal variation in multiple demographic rates on the joint evolution of delayed reproduction and seed dormancy using integral…”
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Growth and Mortality in High and Low Light: Trends among 15 Shade-Tolerant Tropical Rain Forest Tree Species by Juliette M. G. Bloor, Grubb, Peter J.

“…1 Past work on tropical rain forest tree seedlings has been dominated by contrasts between strongly light-demanding and strongly shade-tolerant species. We…”
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In Tropical Lowland Rain Forests Monocots have Tougher Leaves than Dicots, and Include a New Kind of Tough Leaf by Dominy, Nathaniel J, Grubb, Peter J, Jackson, Robyn V, Lucas, Peter W, Metcalfe, Daniel J, Svenning, Jens-Christian, Turner, Ian M

“…BACKGROUND AND AIMS: There has been little previous work on the toughness of the laminae of monocots in tropical lowland rain forest (TLRF) despite the…”
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Evolution of size–dependent flowering in a variable environment: construction and analysis of a stochastic integral projection model by Childs, Dylan Z., Rees, Mark, Rose, Karen E., Grubb, Peter J., Ellner, Stephen P.

“…) can be used to calculate elasticities…”
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Evolution of complex flowering strategies: an age– and size–structured integral projection model by Childs, Dylan Z., Rees, Mark, Rose, Karen E., Grubb, Peter J., Ellner, Stephen P.

“…the probability of flowering depends on both plant size and age. We use the parameterized model to predict this relationship, using the evolutionarily stable…”
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Why Do Some Evergreen Species Keep Their Leaves for a Second Winter, While Others Lose Them? by Peter J. Grubb, Christine L. Thompson, Geoffrey H. Harper

“…In subtropical montane semi-moist forest in SW China (SMSF), a large majority of evergreen tree and tall shrub species was found to have only one cohort of old…”
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Quantifying the Impact of Competition and Spatial Heterogeneity on the Structure and Dynamics of a Four-Species Guild of Winter Annuals by Rees, Mark, Grubb, Peter J., Kelly, Dave

“…We develop statistical methods appropriate for the analysis of spatially structured population data. The methods are used to study the structure and dynamics…”
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Interaction of Irradiance and Soil Nutrient Supply on Growth of Seedlings of Ten European Tall-Shrub Species and Fagus Sylvatica by Grubb, Peter J., Lee, William G., Kollmann, Johannes, Wilson, J. Bastow

“…1 Seedlings of 10 European tall-shrub species and the shade-tolerant tree Fagus sylvatica were grown at 0.3, 1.6, 11, and 63% daylight for 110 days on chalk…”
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Evolution of size-dependent flowering in a variable environment: partitioning the effects of fluctuating selection by Rees, Mark, Childs, Dylan Z., Rose, Karen E., Grubb, Peter J.

“…a monocarpic species in which recruitment, growth and survival all vary from year to year. In…”
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A historical baseline study of the páramo of Antisana in the Ecuadorian Andes including the impacts of burning, grazing and trampling by Grubb, Peter J., Lloyd, J. Robert, Pennington, Terence D., Páez-Bimos, Sebastián

“…We report the vegetation at 4050-4600 m in 1960 on the western slopes of Antisana, Ecuador, decades before burning and grazing were prohibited. Aim: To provide…”
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Regional and local patterns in plant species richness with respect to resource availability by Cornwell, William K., Grubb, Peter J.

“…The hump-shaped relationship between plant species richness and productivity is a well-established and important paradigm. While plot-based species richness…”
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Problems with bioclimatic definitions of vegetation types by Grubb, Peter J., Piper, Frida I., Bellingham, Peter J.

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Recruitment of fleshy‐fruited species under different shrub species: Control by under‐canopy environment by KOLLMANN, JOHANNES, GRUBB, PETER, J.

“…Seedling densities and the mortality of fleshy‐fruited species under 10 European tall‐shrub species and the tree Sorbus aria were analyzed in 10‐year‐old…”
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The Functional Morphology of Juvenile Plants Tolerant of Strong Summer Drought in Shaded Forest Understories in Southern Spain by Sack, Lawren, Grubb, Peter J., Marañón, Teodoro

“…It has been hypothesized that plants cannot tolerate combined shade and drought, as a result of morphological trade-offs. However, numerous plant species are…”
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adaptive value of young leaves being tightly folded or rolled on monocotyledons in tropical lowland rain forest: an hypothesis in two parts by Grubb, Peter J, Jackson, Robyn V

“…In tropical lowland rain forest, we find that species with the leaves tightly folded or rolled until they reach at least 50% of final length occur in 10 of the…”
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