Disappearing plants: why they hide and how they return
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Disappearing plants: why they hide and how they return.
Prolonged dormancy is a life-history stage in which mature plants fail to resprout for one or more growing seasons and instead remain alive belowground. Prolonged dormancy is relatively common, but the proximate causes and consequences of this intriguing strategy have remained elusive. In this study we tested whether stored resources are associated with remaining belowground, and investigated t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Ecology
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0012-9658
DOI: 10.1890/09-1864.1