In the context of a recent massive increase in research on plant root functions and their
impact on the environment, root ecologists currently face many important challenges to keep …

Plant modularity-related traits are important ecological determinants of vegetation
composition, dynamics, and resilience. While simple changes in plant biomass resulting …

Disturbance is an omnipresent selective factor that shapes plant strategies. While annual
species that rely on rapid generative reproduction dominate in habitats frequently affected …

For clonal plants, spatial spread within a site is primarily determined by production of new
ramets, which suggests that allocation to this function is a key component of the population …

Nutrients are often released heterogeneously over time (eg, in pulses) in natural habitats.
Different genotypes of the same plant species may vary in their responses to temporal …

Background While clonal integration can improve the performance of rhizomatous plants, it
remains unclear whether their clonal integration strategy changes under contrasting clip** …

Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of nitrogen (N) deposition on
clonal growth in a rhizome clonal plant, Leymus chinensis (Trin.) Tzvel …

Potamogeton crispus is an important species in purifying water and maintaining a healthy
aquatic ecosystem. To find the effect of UV-B radiation on the life history of P. crispus, the …

Asexual reproduction is a common phenomenon in plants. Diverse studies have found a
positive relationship between both aboveground and belowground biomass and the …

Hieracium pilosella and H. aurantiacum are invading alpine regions in New South Wales,
Australia. In a glasshouse experiment we investigated germination and growth rates of these …