Plant Size and Competitive Dynamics along Nutrient Gradients
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Plant Size and Competitive Dynamics along Nutrient Gradients.
Resource competition theory in plants has focused largely on resource acquisition traits that are independent of size, such as traits of individual leaves or roots or proportional allocation to different functions. However, plants also differ in maximum potential size, which could outweigh differences in module-level traits. We used a community ecosystem model called mondrian to investigate whe...
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عنوان ژورنال: The American Naturalist
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0003-0147,1537-5323
DOI: 10.1086/692438