Plant Strategies : The Demographic Consequences of Functional Traits in Changing Environments.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Laughlin, Daniel C. (Author)
Corporate Author:	Oxford Academic
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, [2023]
Subjects:	Plant ecology. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Part I. Foundations
1 Perspectives on Plant Strategies
1.1 Convergent evolution provides inspiration to the student of plant strategies
1.2 A contrast in perspectives encapsulates the problem of plant strategy theory
1.3 Plant strategies can be categories or arranged along continua
1.4 A general definition of plant strategies
1.5 Problems addressed by plant strategy theory
1.6 Chapter summary
1.7 Questions
2 A Menagerie of Plant Strategy Models
2.1 Categorical life forms partially explain responses to global environmental gradients
2.2 Life history strategies evolved in response to disturbance dynamics
2.3 Functional strategies evolved in response to resource gradients
2.4 Functional strategies evolved in response to multiple environmental gradients
2.5 Grime's CSR model: plants evolved in response to stress and disturbance
2.6 Three-strategy models tend to mirror three demographic rates
2.7 Grubb and Craine proposed additional stress-tolerant strategies
2.8 Westoby's continuous three-dimensional plant strategy scheme
2.9 Demographers and physiologists must work together
2.10 Chapter summary
2.11 Questions
3 The Dimensionality of Plant Strategy Theory
3.1 Dimensionality is a blessing not a curse
3.2 Plant strategy theory links traits to fitness
3.3 Life history traits potentially span three dimensions
3.4 Functional traits potentially span at least five dimensions
3.5 Plants require light, water, and nutrients
3.6 Disturbance regimes account for type, frequency, severity, and extent
3.7 Temperature regulates all biological processes
3.8 Toward a formal plant strategy theory
3.9 Chapter summary
3.10 Questions
Part II. Demography and Life History
4 Plant Demography
4.1 Plant strategies prove themselves through positive demographic outcomes
4.2 Population growth rate is a matter of birth and death
4.3 Life tables can be used to compute life history traits
4.4 From ages to stages
4.5 Silvertown and Franco's demographic triangle
4.6 From stages to ages
4.7 Seed banks can be modeled as discrete stages
4.8 Population models can incorporate density dependence
4.9 Integral projection models consider size as a continuum
4.10 Additional covariates can be incorporated into vital rate regression models
4.11 Chapter summary
4.12 Questions
5 Life History Theory Applied to Plants
5.1 Population growth rate is an integrative proxy of average fitness in a population
5.2 A brief digression on what else natural selection could be optimizing
5.3 Optimizing the product of survival and reproduction
5.4 Trade-offs make some trait combinations impossible
5.5 Reproduction can either be fatal or it can recur throughout the lifespan.