Individual vital rates respond differently to local‐scale environmental variation and neighbour removal
Alexandra A. Catling,
Margaret M. Mayfield,
John M. Dwyer
Abstract:Understanding how plant fitness varies along natural gradients is critical for predicting responses to environmental change. However, individual vital rates are often used as fitness proxies without knowing how other vital rates vary along the same gradients.
We investigated how canopy cover, plant–plant interactions, water availability and soil properties influenced the emergence, survival, seed production and population growth rates of eight annual plant species in semi‐arid Western Australia. We sowed seed… Show more
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