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Phenotypic plasticity as an index of drought tolerance in three Patagonian steppe grasses.
Annals of botany - 1 Sept 2012
Couso L L, Fernández R J
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Despite general agreement regarding the adaptive importance of plasticity, evidence for the role of environmental resource availability in plants is scarce. In arid and semi-arid environments, the persistence and dominance of perennial species depends on their capacity to tolerate drought: tolerance could be given on one extreme by fixed traits and, on the other, by plastic traits. To...
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