Importance of plasticity and decision-making strategies for plant resource acquisition in spatio-temporally variable environments

New Phytologist

Volumn 174, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 182-193

  Magyar, Gabriella ^a,b   Kun, Ádám ^a   Oborny, Beáta ^a   Stuefer, Josef F ^b  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cellular automata; Changing environment; Clonal plant; Division of labour; Modular organization; Phenotypic plasticity; Spatial heterogeneity; Spatial population dynamics

Indexed keywords

CLONAL ORGANISM; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIALIZATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; PHENOTYPE; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHENOTYPE; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY;

EID: 33847373540     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2007.01969.x     Document Type: Article

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