Mark K. J. Ooi

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the impact of increased temperatures on the longevity and dynamics of the persistent soil seed banks of eight ephemeral species from arid Australia and found that the predicted global temperature increases under climate change will be reflected in increased soil temperatures, and that seeds in the soil seed bank will be exposed to long durations of high temperatures over the summer months.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the potential impact of changing temperature, rainfall and fire regimes on the longevity of long-term persistent seed-banks is presented. But, there are few studies investigating the mechanistic responses of demographic processes such as seed-bank dynamics to forecast climate change.

TL;DR: In this article, the impacts of climate-driven shifts in fire regimes on vegetation communities, and likely responses to fire coinciding with severe drought, heatwaves and/or insect outbreaks are examined.

TL;DR: Evidence from this study supports including dormancy-breaking temperature thresholds as an attribute for identifying functional types in trait frameworks, and predicts that species in the facultative group are most at risk to increased seed bank decay resulting from elevated soil temperatures under projected climate change.