Search for dissertations about: "pre-dispersal seed predation"

Found 5 swedish dissertations containing the words pre-dispersal seed predation.

  2. 1. Plant-seed predator interactions – ecological and evolutionary aspects

    Author : Hannah Östergård; Johan Ehrlén; Peter Hambäck; William Kunin; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; apparent competition; community context; fruit abortion; defence; host range; monophagous; offence; oligophagous; plant-animal interactions; pre-dispersal seed predation; selection; spatio-temporal variation; Biology; Biologi; Plant Ecology; växtekologi;

    Abstract : Plant-animal interactions are affected by both abundance and distribution of interacting species and the community context in which they occur. However, the relative importance of these factors is poorly known. READ MORE

  4. 2. Linking plant population dynamics to the local environment and forest succession

    Author : Johan Petter Dahlgren; Johan Ehrlén; Ove Eriksson; Mark Rees; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Actaea spicata; Forest herbs; Forest succession; Integral projection model; Plant demography; Plant phenology; Population dynamics; Pre-dispersal seed predation; Seed mass; Soil potassium; Specific leaf area; Terrestrial ecology; Terrestisk ekologi; Plant Ecology; växtekologi;

    Abstract : Linking environmental variation to population dynamics is necessary to understand and predict how the environment influences species abundances and distributions. I used demographic, environmental and trait data of forest herbs to study effects of spatial variation in environmental factors on populations as well as environmental change in terms of effects of forest succession on field layer plants. READ MORE

  5. 3. The spatial and temporal dynamics of plant-animal interactions in the forest herb Actaea spicata

    Author : Hugo von Zeipel; Johan Ehrlén; Ove Eriksson; Saskya van Nouhuys; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Eupithecia immundata; parasitoid; rodent; seed predation; dispersal; recruitment; multitrophic; metapopulation; trophic cascades; community complexity; Biology; Biologi; Plant Ecology; växtekologi;

    Abstract : Landscape effects on species performance currently receives much attention. Habitat loss and fragmentation are considered major threats to species diversity. Deciduous forests in southern Sweden are previous wooded pastures that have become species-rich communities appearing as islands in agricultural landscapes, varying in species composition. READ MORE

  6. 4. Recruitment and understorey herb dynamics in deciduous and mixed coniferous forest

    Author : Heléne Fröborg; Mikael Ohlson; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Ecological Botany; ekologisk botanik;

    Abstract : The distribution and abundance of plant species is determined by the ability to disperse, recruit and persist in a suitable habitat. Plant-animal interactions influence recruitment by reducing seeds and seedlings through predation and herbivory. READ MORE

  7. 5. Environmental heterogeneity, population dynamics and life-history differentiation in Primula farinosa

    Author : Tove von Euler; Johan Ehrlén; Jon Ågren; Olav Skarpaas; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Plant Ecology; växtekologi;

    Abstract : Allocation to reproduction is a key life-history trait. Optimal allocation to reproduction depends on environmental conditions because of their effects both on costs and benefits of reproduction and on patterns of growth, fecundity, and mortality. READ MORE