Open AccessEffects of microtopography on the summer survival of Plantago maritima seedlings
Author(s) -
Jerling Lenn
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
ecography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.973
H-Index - 128
eISSN - 1600-0587
pISSN - 0906-7590
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0587.1981.tb00988.x
Subject(s) - biology , abundance (ecology) , ecology , botany
The survival of Plantago maritima seedlings was studied on a Baltic sea‐shore meadow and related to a topographical gradient and to microtopography. The seedlings showed different survival at different microtopographical levels. These differences could be identified all along the gradient but did not show in the same place in every year. The survival of seedlings was also different in different parts of the gradient. This means that the distribution of safe‐sites flucluates with time. Areas with the highest survival rate of seedlings did not coincide with areas with the highest abundance of adults.