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Patchy habitats division of labour and growth dividends in clonal plants
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posted on 2023-06-07, 21:44 authored by Michael J Hutchings, Dushyantha K WijesingheNatural habitats are patchy in quality. In clonal plants, resource- acquiring structures often occupy sites that differ in quality. Clonal plants can display division of labour in resource-acquisition duties, manifested as local specialization by ramets, which enhances acquisition of each resource from sites of greatest abundance. Physiological integration can re- distribute resources internally from sites of acquisition to clone parts sited where the same resources are scarce. Recent research is showing that such specialization and resource sharing is a highly efficient strategy for acquiring resources and that it can result in considerably greater growth when resources are heterogeneously distributed than when the same quantity of resources is distributed homogeneously.
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Trends in Ecology and EvolutionISSN
01695347Publisher
Trends in Ecology and EvolutionExternal DOI
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10Volume
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390-394ISBN
0169-5347Department affiliated with
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