Global Grass (Poaceae) Success Underpinned by Traits Facilitating Colonization, Persistence and Habitat Transformation
Zurich Open Repository and Archive University of Zurich Main Library Strickhofstrasse 39 CH-8057 Zurich www.zora.uzh.ch Year: 2018 Global grass (Poaceae) success underpinned by traits facilitating colonization, persistence and habitat transformation Linder, H Peter ; Lehmann, Caroline E R ; Archibald, Sally ; Osborne, Colin P ; Richardson, David M DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12388 Posted at the Zurich Open Repository and Archive, University of Zurich ZORA URL: https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-143186 Journal Article Published Version Originally published at: Linder, H Peter; Lehmann, Caroline E R; Archibald, Sally; Osborne, Colin P; Richardson, David M (2018). Global grass (Poaceae) success underpinned by traits facilitating colonization, persistence and habitat transformation. Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 93(2):1125-1144. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12388 Biol. Rev. (2017), pp. 000–000. 1 doi: 10.1111/brv.12388 Global grass (Poaceae) success underpinned by traits facilitating colonization, persistence and habitat transformation H. P. Linder1,∗, Caroline E. R. Lehmann2,3, Sally Archibald3, Colin P. Osborne4 and David M. Richardson5 1Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Zurich, Zollikerstrasse 107, CH 8008 Zurich, Switzerland 2School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FF, UK 3Centre for African Ecology, School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Private Bag X3, WITS, 2050, South Africa 4Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, U.K. 5Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Botany and Zoology, Stellenbosch University, Matieland 7602, South Africa ABSTRACT Poaceae (the grasses) is arguably the most successful plant family, in terms of its global occurrence in (almost) all ecosystems with angiosperms, its ecological dominance in many ecosystems, and high species richness.
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