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Assembly of plant communities has long been scrutinized through the lens of trait‐based ecology. Studies generally analyse functional traits related to the vegetative growth, survival and resource acquisition and thus ignore how assembly rules may affect plants at other stages of their life cycle, particularly when seeds disperse, persist in soil and germinate.
Here, we analysed an extensive dataset...