On the adaptive value of large seeds for tropical moist forest trees: A review and synthesis

The genetical evolution of social behaviour. I

1964 • 15,639 citations

Population Biology of Plants

1977 • 9,036 citations

Population Biology of Plants.

1978 • 6,973 citations

Plant Strategies and Vegetation Processes

1979 • 5,383 citations

Herbivores and the Number of Tree Species in Tropical Forests

1970 • 4,587 citations

The genetical evolution of social behaviour. II

1964 • 3,713 citations

Ecology of Seed Dispersal

1982 • 3,478 citations

Plant Strategies and Vegetation Processes

1980 • 2,375 citations

Seed Predation by Animals

1971 • 1,967 citations

On the role of natural enemies in preventing competitive exclusion in some marine animals and in rain forest trees

1971 • 1,930 citations

Herbivory and Defensive Characteristics of Tree Species in a Lowland Tropical Forest

1983 • 1,739 citations

Flowering Plants. Evolution above the Species Level

1975 • 1,451 citations

The ecology of arboreal folivores.

1978 • 1,427 citations

Strategies in Herbivory by Mammals: The Role of Plant Secondary Compounds

1974 • 1,338 citations

Flowering Plants

1974 • 1,297 citations

Dispersal in stable habitats

1977 • 1,288 citations

The Shapes and Sizes of Seeds

1970 • 1,247 citations

Tropical Rain Forests of the Far East.

1986 • 1,207 citations

Toward a General Theory of Plant Antiherbivore Chemistry

1976 • 1,168 citations

The germination of seeds

1982 • 1,059 citations

The Adaptive Geometry of Trees

1972 • 1,035 citations

Physiology and Biochemistry of Seeds in Relation to Germination

1982 • 1,009 citations

Tropical trees as living systems

1979 • 980 citations

Tropical Blackwater Rivers, Animals, and Mast Fruiting by the Dipterocarpaceae

1974 • 919 citations

Gap Partitioning among Tropical Rainforest Trees

1980 • 902 citations

Seedling Survival of Tropical Tree Species: Interactions of Dispersal Distance, Light‐Gaps, and Pathogens

1984 • 893 citations

Communities and Ecosystems.

1977 • 856 citations

The Reproductive Capacity of Plants

1943 • 828 citations

Gap‐Phase Regeneration in a Tropical Forest

1985 • 821 citations

Seed Weight in Relation to Environmental Conditions in California

1972 • 782 citations

Physiological Ecology of Tropical Succession: A Comparative Review

1980 • 694 citations

Communities and Ecosystems

2013 • 671 citations

Advances in the Study of Vesicular-Arbuscular Mycorrhiza

1973 • 663 citations

Growth and Development of Trees

1971 • 641 citations

Photosynthetic Light Environments in a Lowland Tropical Rain Forest in Costa Rica

1984 • 637 citations

SEED‐EATERS VERSUS SEED SIZE, NUMBER, TOXICITY AND DISPERSAL

1969 • 630 citations

SEED STORAGE AND LONGEVITY

1972 • 564 citations

Tropical Trees as Living Systems.

1980 • 556 citations

Pathogen mortality of tropical tree seedlings: experimental studies of the effects of dispersal distance, seedling density, and light conditions

1984 • 555 citations

Mycorrhizae Influence Tropical Succession

1980 • 538 citations

Natural Selection for Variances in Offspring Numbers: A New Evolutionary Principle

1977 • 521 citations

The ecology of coevolved seed dispersal systems

1975 • 512 citations

Seed Dispersal of the Tropical Tree, Platypodium Elegans, and the Escape of its Seedlings from Fungal Pathogens

1983 • 499 citations

Adaptation of Fruit Morphology to Dispersal Agents in a Neotropical Forest

1983 • 484 citations

The Relationship between Seed Size and Establishment Conditions in Tropical Woody Plants

1985 • 474 citations

Early Consequences of Seed Dispersal for a Neotropical Tree (Virola surinamensis)

1985 • 471 citations

Uprooting and snapping of trees: structural determinants and ecological consequences

1983 • 450 citations

Neotropical Forest Dynamics

1980 • 443 citations

Seed Germination in a Seasonal Tropical Forest in Panama: A Community Study

1983 • 420 citations

Seedling Establishment in Vertical Gradients of Sunlight

1965 • 420 citations

LIGHT AS AN ECOLOGICAL FACTOR

1967 • 413 citations

Distribution and ecology of vascular plants in a tropical rain forest

1981 • 406 citations

Treefall Pits and Mounds, Buried Seeds, and the Importance of Soil Disturbance to Pioneer Trees on Barro Colorado Island, Panama

1983 • 396 citations

Mate choice in plants: tactics, mechanisms and consequences.

1983 • 365 citations

Relationships between Fruiting Seasons and Seed Dispersal Methods in a Neotropical Forest

1970 • 362 citations

Biochemical coevolution between plants and their insect herbivores

1975 • 332 citations

Removal of Wild Nutmeg (Virola Surinamensis) Crops by Birds

1981 • 325 citations

Competition between plants of different initial seed sizes in swards of subterranean clover (Trifolium subterraneum L.) with particular reference to leaf area and the light microclimate

1958 • 299 citations

Offspring Recruitment around Tropical Trees: Changes in Cohort Distance with Time

1983 • 255 citations

Tropical forest and its environment

1974 • 255 citations

Plant Phenolics: An Ecological Perspective

1971 • 253 citations

Ecology and social behavior of the coati, Nasua narica on Barro Colorado Island Panama

1962 • 250 citations

The Spread of Sibling Larvae of Sedentary Marine Invertebrates

1974 • 244 citations

Physiology and Biochemistry of Seeds in Relation to Germination

1978 • 234 citations

Effects of Tree Leaf Litter on Herbaceous Vegetation in Deciduous Woodland: II. An Experimental Investigation

1981 • 231 citations

The tropical rainforest

1975 • 222 citations

Coefficients of relatedness in sociobiology

1980 • 211 citations

A Comparison of Montane and Lowland Rain Forest in Ecuador: II. The Climate and its Effects on the Distribution and Physiognomy of the Forests

1966 • 210 citations

Studies in Malaysian Rain Forest: I. The Forest on Triassic Sediments in Jengka Forest Reserve

1968 • 208 citations

COEVOLUTION OF ANIMALS AND PLANTS

1976 • 201 citations

Effects of seed size on seedling size in Virola surinamensis; a within and between tree analysis

1982 • 198 citations

Effects of light regime on the growth, leaf morphology, and water relations of seedlings of two species of tropical trees

1983 • 187 citations

Population stability and the evolution of dispersal in a heterogeneous environment

1975 • 185 citations

The Reproductive Capacity of Plants

1943 • 179 citations

The Behaviour of Seeds in Soil: II. The Germination of Seeds on the Surface of a Water Supplying Substrate

1966 • 177 citations

Nutmeg Dispersal by Tropical Birds

1980 • 172 citations

EVOLUTION OF THE SEED PLANTS AND INCLUSIVE FITNESS OF PLANT TISSUES

1982 • 167 citations

Seed size and mass in relation to environment

1974 • 150 citations

The influence of seed size and depth of sowing on pre-emergence and early vegetative growth of subterranean clover (Trifolium subterraneum L.)

1956 • 149 citations

EXPERIMENTS ON THE ECOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF PHYCOMYCETOUS MYCORRHIZAS

1967 • 146 citations

Seed Size, Life Span, and Germination Date as Coadapted Features of Plant Life History

1981 • 144 citations

Stunting of Citrus Seedlings in Fumigated Nursery Soils Related to the Absence of Endomycorrhizae

1972 • 139 citations

Population Ecology of Desert Rodent Communities: Body Size and Seed‐Husking as Bases for Heteromyid Coexistence

1970 • 137 citations

Seed Stocks in Ghanaian Forest Soils

1980 • 131 citations

Tropical Forest and Its Environment

1975 • 129 citations

The effect of accessibility on rates of fruit removal from tropical shrubs: An experimental study

1982 • 128 citations

Refuging

1970 • 126 citations

Invasion and Ecesis of Bird-Disseminated Woody Plants in a Temperate Forest Sere

1975 • 124 citations

The Species Composition of Soil Seed Banks Beneath Lowland Tropical Rainforests in North Queensland, Australia

1983 • 123 citations

Influence of Seed Size and Depth of Sowing on the Establishment and Growth of Varieties of Fiber and Oil Seed Flax

1967 • 122 citations

Removal of Seeds from Horse Dung by Tropical Rodents: Influnce of Habitat and Amount of Dung

1982 • 121 citations

Tropical Rain Forest Ecosystems

1989 • 121 citations

Kin selection and conflict in seed maturation

1983 • 111 citations

THE BEHAVIOUR OF THE GREEN ACOUCHI (MYOPROCTAPRATTI) WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO SCATTER HOARDING

1962 • 109 citations

Vesicular-Arbuscular Mycorrhizae Formed on Maize and Tuliptree by Endogone Fasciculata

1965 • 106 citations

Seeds from Surface Soils in a Tropical Region of Veracruz, Mexico

1972 • 105 citations

The distribution of Endogone spores in some Australian and New Zealand soils, and in an experimental field soil at Rothamsted

1968 • 104 citations

Why are Embryos so Tasty?

1974 • 104 citations

Distribution of Palm Fruits on a Rain Forest Floor: Why White-Lipped Peccaries Forage near Objects

1981 • 103 citations

The role of time of emergence in determining the growth of individual plants in swards of subterranean clover (Trifolium subterraneum L.)

1963 • 103 citations

Dormancy and Dispersal of Seeds of Secondary Forest Species Under the Canopy of a Primary Tropical Rain Forest in Northern Thailand

1979 • 96 citations

Growth responses of dipterocarp seedlings to light.

1981 • 93 citations

The early vegetative growth of three strains of subterranean clover (Trifolium subterraneum L.) in relation to size of seed

1957 • 88 citations

Soils, vegetation, and seed-eating by black colobus monkeys

1978 • 87 citations

Fig-Seed Predation and Dispersal by Birds

1983 • 84 citations

A Catena in Tropical Moist Semi-Deciduous Forest Near Kade, Ghana

1970 • 81 citations

EFFECT OF VESIGULAR‐ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZAS ON GROWTH OF GRISELINIA LITTORALIS (CORNACEAE)

1959 • 75 citations

Distribution of Major Forest Species in Southeastern Pennsylvania

1973 • 70 citations

Seed Size as a Correlate of Temporal and Spatial Patterns of Seed Fall in a Neotropical Forest

1981 • 66 citations

Seed Dispersal, Seed Predation, and Juvenile Mortality of Aglaia sp. (Meliaceae) in Lowland Dipterocarp Rainforest

1985 • 63 citations

The Mora Forests of Trinidad, British West Indies

1946 • 61 citations

Ecological Studies on the Rain Forest of Southern Nigeria: II. The Atmospheric Environmental Conditions

1939 • 61 citations

Mycorrhizal associations in some Nigerian forest trees

1968 • 60 citations

Germination ecology of Malaysian woody plants.

1980 • 59 citations

Leaf Litter as a Killer

1954 • 56 citations

Biochemical Aspects of Plant and Animal Coevolution

1979 • 47 citations

SEEDS IN TAPIR DUNG IN SANTA ROSA NATIONAL PARK, COSTA RICA

1982 • 42 citations

The Comparative Biology of Closely Related Species: VI. ANALYSIS OF THE GROWTH OFTRIFOLIUM REPENSANDT. FRAGIFERUMIN PURE AND MIXED POPULATIONS

1963 • 40 citations

Seed Weight as a Function of Life Form, Elevation and Life Zone in Neotropical Forests

1985 • 39 citations

The Relationship of Fungi to Survival of Shaded Tree Seedlings

1962 • 39 citations

The Distribution of Light Reaching the Ground Vegetation in a Tropical Rain Forest

1960 • 35 citations

Germination of fresh seeds of Malaysian trees III.

1973 • 35 citations

Notes on the Seedling Ecology of a Large-Seeded Species of Bombacaceae

1980 • 33 citations

Vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizae affect the growth of Bactris gasipaes.

1977 • 32 citations

An autecological study of Palicourea riparia Bentham as related to rain forest disturbance in Puerto Rico

1979 • 32 citations

Effect of Seed Weight on the Vegetative Growth of Competing Annual Trifoliums¹

1968 • 24 citations

Factors affecting growith and distribution of kauri (Agathis australis Salisb.) I. Effect of light on the establishment of Kaura and of Phyllocladus trichomanoides D.Don

1959 • 23 citations

Endogonaceous mycorrhizas synthesised in Leptospermum (Myrtaceae)

1971 • 22 citations

Intensity of Seed Predation on Brosimum utile by Mealy Parrots (Amazona farinos)

1979 • 22 citations

Collection, germination and storage of dipterocarp seeds.

1981 • 21 citations

Regeneration of tropical lowland forest in Sabah, Malaysia, forty years after logging.

1970 • 21 citations

Seed description and storage tests of some Dipterocarps.

1973 • 20 citations

FRUIT TRAITS, AND SEED CONSUMPTION BY RODENTS, OF CRESCENTIA ALATA (BIGNONIACEAE) IN SANTA ROSA NATIONAL PARK, COSTA RICA

1982 • 20 citations

Germination and seedling survival in kemenyan, Styrax benzoin.

1982 • 17 citations

An approach towards a silvicultural system for the hill forests of the Malay Peninsula.

1970 • 16 citations

Effect of seedbeds on germination and survival of Douglas Fir.

1965 • 13 citations

SEED REMOVAL FROM FALLEN GUANACASTE FRUITS (ENTEROLOBIUM CYCLOCARPUM) BY SPINY POCKET MICE (LIOMYS SALVINI)

1982 • 12 citations

De natuurlijke verjonging in het Goenoeng-Gedehcomplex

1933 • 11 citations

The fruits, seeds and seedlings of Malayan trees I-XI.

1975 • 8 citations

Plantation establishment of Klinki Pine (Araucaria hunsteinii) [A. klinkii] in New Guinea.

1965 • 7 citations

VESICULAR-ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZAL FUNGI AND PLANT GROWTH IN A COSTA RICAN LOWLAND RAINFOREST

1975 • 6 citations

Deleted Work

1955 • 0 citations