This paper reviews the concepts of ecosystem resilience, resistance, and stability in forests
and their relationship to biodiversity, with particular reference to climate change. The report …

Ecosystem services are natural processes that benefit humans. Birds contribute the four
types of services recognized by the UN Millennium Ecosystem Assessment—provisioning …

Long‐distance seed dispersal influences many key aspects of the biology of plants,
including spread of invasive species, metapopulation dynamics, and diversity and dynamics …

This volume provides the first comprehensive summary of how plant, animal, and microbial
communities develop under the harsh conditions following dramatic natural disturbances …

1. Inland wetlands constitute ecological islands of aquatic habitat often isolated by huge
areas of non‐suitable terrestrial habitats. Although most aquatic organisms lack the capacity …

Assessing species' vulnerability to climate change is a prerequisite for develo** effective
strategies to conserve them. The last three decades have seen exponential growth in the …

Seed dispersal can be advantageous (1) in escape from density-or distance-dependent
seed and seedling mortality,(2) by colonization of suitable sites unpredictable in space and …

Abstract Vittoz P. and Engler R. 2007. Seed dispersal distances: a typology based on
dispersal modes and plant traits. Bot. Helv. 117: 109–124. The ability of plants to disperse …

It has been argued that nonstandard mechanisms of dispersal are often responsible for long‐
distance dispersal in plants. For example, plant seeds that appear to be adapted for wind …

Models of plant migration based on estimates of biological parameters severely
underestimate the rate of spread when compared to empirical estimates of plant migration …