The role of plasticity in resource capture by plants

Evolutionary Ecology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 299-307

  Grime, J P ^a   Mackey, J M L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cellular acclimation; Defoliation; Morphological plasticity; Phylogeny; Plant community structure; Resource foraging; Screening tests; Sets of traits; Tradeoffs

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATION; MORPHOLOGY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PLANT; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY;

EID: 0036038375     PISSN: 02697653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1019640813676     Document Type: Article

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