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Importance of whole-plant biomass allocation and reproductive timing to habitat differentiation across the North American sunflowers.
Annals of botany - 1 May 2017
Mason Chase M, Goolsby Eric W, Davis Kaleigh E, Bullock Devon V, Donovan Lisa A
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Background and Aims: Trait-based plant ecology attempts to use small numbers of functional traits to predict plant ecological strategies. However, a major gap exists between our understanding of organ-level ecophysiological traits and our understanding of whole-plant fitness and environmental adaptation. In this gap lie whole-plant organizational traits, including those that describe how plant biomass is...
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