Search results for "seed bank longevity"

Does landscape diversity influence species fitness in farmland plants ?

2015

In agriculture, landscape management research has proven extremely valuable for explaining species amount, such as how species capture and utilize changed landscape resources to maintain population size and community diversity. What is surprising is the apparent lack of comparable studies on the effects of landscape properties and management on species fitness. Here, we search for "pathological" situations where landscape effects on farmland plant amount mask significantly different effects on fitness. We examined the case of 83 weed species in 256 fields distributed across the UK national scale. Whether at the local scale of the neighborhood or the larger scale of 2 km, we find landscape e…