Journal article
Seed dormancy interacts with fire seasonality mechanisms
Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Vol.35(12), pp.1057-1059
2020
Abstract
We recently published a framework of demographic mechanisms that may impact plant population responses to changes in fire seasonality [1]. This framework now includes eight mechanisms identified in [1,2] and further detailed in [3,4]. Subsequently, Cao et al. [5] have proposed that seed dormancy class, based on the dormancy classification scheme of Baskin and Baskin [6], should be recognised as an additional mechanism. Cao et al. [5] described for each seed dormancy class, how seed dormancy induction and loss, and germination timing, may be influenced by seasonal environmental cues (e.g., light and temperature) and, separately, how they interact with fire-related cues (e.g., heat and smoke). We agree that seed dormancy and germination traits are important to the regeneration of plants in fire-prone regions. However, as Cao et al. [5] do not identify how seed dormancy class determines seasonally varying resistant or vulnerable states required to create a fire seasonality effect beyond those already defined [1], it is not clear how dormancy class forms a new separate mechanism under a demographic framework.
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- Title
- Seed dormancy interacts with fire seasonality mechanisms
- Authors/Creators
- R. Tangney (Author/Creator)R.G. Miller (Author/Creator)N.J. Enright (Author/Creator)J.B. Fontaine (Author/Creator)D.J. Merritt (Author/Creator)M.K.J. Ooi (Author/Creator)K.X. Ruthrof (Author/Creator)B.P. Miller (Author/Creator)
- Publication Details
- Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Vol.35(12), pp.1057-1059
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Identifiers
- 991005541860207891
- Copyright
- © 2020 Elsevier Ltd.
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Environmental and Conservation Sciences
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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