What determines the number and size of the seeds produced by a plant? How oftenshould it reproduce them? Why and how are seeds dispersed and what are theimplica... » 

What determines the number and size of the seeds produced by a plant? How oftenshould it reproduce them? Why and how are seeds dispersed and what are theimplications for the diversity and composition of vegetation? These are justsome of the questions tackled in this wideranging review of the role of seedsin the ecology of plants. The text encompasses a wide range of concepts ofgeneral relevance to plant ecology reflecting the central role that the studyof seed ecology has played in elucidating many fundamental aspects of plantcommunity function. «