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From: Environmental context determines the limiting demographic processes for plant recruitment across a species’ elevational range

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(a) The multi-stage process of plant recruitment is the product of seed deposition, the proportion of seeds not predated (i.e., [1-seed predation]), seed germination and seedling survival. Each process varies independently as a function of the environmental context (i.e., environmental variable 1 & 2; grey colour shading). (b) Recruitment of a species occurs under different environmental contexts, e.g., environmental conditions may vary between peripheral and central populations across a species range. Consequently, the realized transition probabilities of the individual demographic processes are context-dependent, e.g., compare the hypothetical differences in the frequency of the specific environmental condition between Context 1 & 2 (green colour shading).

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