Global patterns of potential future plant diversity hidden in soil seed banks

Xuejun Yang; Carol C. Baskin; Jerry M. Baskin; Robin J. Pakeman; Zhenying Huang; Ruiru Gao; Johannes H. C. Cornelissen

doi:10.1038/s41467-021-27379-1

Nature Communications (Dec 2021)

Global patterns of potential future plant diversity hidden in soil seed banks

Xuejun Yang,
Carol C. Baskin,
Jerry M. Baskin,
Robin J. Pakeman,
Zhenying Huang,
Ruiru Gao,
Johannes H. C. Cornelissen

Affiliations

Xuejun Yang: State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Carol C. Baskin: Department of Biology, University of Kentucky
Jerry M. Baskin: Department of Biology, University of Kentucky
Robin J. Pakeman: Department of Ecological Sciences, The James Hutton Institute, Craigiebuckler
Zhenying Huang: State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Ruiru Gao: The School of Life Sciences, Shanxi Normal University
Johannes H. C. Cornelissen: Systems Ecology, Department of Ecological Science, VU University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27379-1
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Soil seed banks are reservoirs of plant biodiversity. Here the authors compile a global dataset of soil seed banks in natural plant communities and report a spatially explicit analysis of environmental controls of seed bank density and diversity.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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