Article
Plant traits respond to the competitive neighbourhood at different spatial and temporal scales.
Annals of botany - 1 Jan 2015
Bittebiere Anne-Kristel, Mony Cendrine
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Clonal plants can plastically modify their traits in response to competition, but little is known regarding the spatio-temporal scale at which a competitive neighbourhood determines the variability in species traits. This study tests the hypothesis that the local neighbourhood can be expected to influence the processes that are involved in competition tolerance and avoidance, and that this...
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