Max Debussche

TL;DR: Morphological and ecophysiological traits of narrow endemic species indicate that they are not more stress-tolerant than their widespread congeners, and lower investment in pollen transfer and seed production suggest that local persistence is a key feature of the population ecology ofarrow endemic species.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess whether environmental and human factors influenced the spatial distribution and the dynamics of regionally rare plant species since the late nineteenth century, and whether these spatial and temporal patterns of rare species occurrences differ according to their chorology (level of endemism and biogeographic affinity).

TL;DR: The hypothesis that differences in the distribution and abundance of species sharing an identical set of "ideal weed character- istics" are explicable in terms of species-specific responses to environmental variation within their new range is tested.

TL;DR: It is concluded that permanent plot studies are powerful in identifying successional trends and can also provide additional insights into the effects of disturbance some of the mechanisms underlying the dynamics of diversity.