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The unfolding of plant growth form-defence syndromes along elevation gradients.
Ecology letters - 1 May 2018
Defossez Emmanuel, Pellissier Loïc, Rasmann Sergio
Abstract excerpt
Understanding the functional economics that drives plant investment of resources requires investigating the interface between plant phenotypes and the variation in ecological conditions. While allocation to defence represents a large portion of the carbon budget, this axis is usually neglected in the study of plant economic spectrum. Using a novel geometrical approach, we analysed the co-variation in a...
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