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Phenotypic correlates of the lianescent growth form: a review.
Annals of botany - 1 Dec 2013
Wyka Tomasz P, Oleksyn Jacek, Karolewski Piotr, Schnitzer Stefan A
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BACKGROUND: As proposed by Darwin, climbers have been assumed to allocate a smaller fraction of biomass to support organs in comparison with self-supporting plants. They have also been hypothesized to possess a set of traits associated with fast growth, resource uptake and high productivity. SCOPE: In this review, these hypotheses are evaluated by assembling and synthesizing published and unpublished data sets...
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