The theory and practice of branch autonomy

DG Sprugel, TM Hinckley, W Schaap - Annual Review of Ecology and …, 1991 - JSTOR
The past 15 years have seen a surge of interest in modularity in plants; that is, in the
implications of the fact that plants are composed of repetitive modules that may in some …

Green plants as intelligent organisms

A Trewavas - Trends in plant science, 2005 - cell.com
Intelligent behaviour, even in humans, is an aspect of complex adaptive behaviour that
provides a capacity for problem solving. This article assesses whether plants have a …

Mechanisms determining the degree of size asymmetry in competition among plants

S Schwinning, J Weiner - Oecologia, 1998 - Springer
When plants are competing, larger individuals often obtain a disproportionate share of the
contested resources and suppress the growth of their smaller neighbors, a phenomenon …

Foraging in plants: the role of morphological plasticity in resource acquisition

MJ Hutchings, H de Kroon - Advances in ecological research, 1994 - Elsevier
Triffids were, admittedly, a bit weird—but that was, after all, just because they were novelties.
People had felt the same about novelties of other days—about kangaroos, giant lizards …

[КНИГА][B] Plants in changing environments: linking physiological, population, and community ecology

FA Bazzaz, FA Bazzaz - 1996 - academia.edu
Plants in changing environments: Linking physiological, population. 2 Jun 2014. Plants in
Changing Environments: Linking Physiological, Population, and Community. Ecology, 1996 …

Habitat selection in plants

FA Bazzaz - The American Naturalist, 1991 - journals.uchicago.edu
Habitat-selection concepts have rarely been explicitly used for plants, perhaps because the
majority of them are immobile. For plants, habitat selection results from evolutionary …

Structure and asymmetry of tree crowns in relation to local competition in a natural mature Scots pine forest

S Rouvinen, T Kuuluvainen - Canadian Journal of Forest …, 1997 - cdnsciencepub.com
This study examined the effect of local competition, as determined by the number, size, and
spatial distribution of neighboring trees, on crown base height, crown width, and crown …

Scaling from trees to forests: tractable macroscopic equations for forest dynamics

N Strigul, D Pristinski, D Purves, J Dushoff… - Ecological …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Individual‐based forest simulators, such as TASS and SORTIE, are spatial stochastic
processes that predict properties of populations and communities by simulating the fate of …

Communication in plants

F Baluška, S Mancuso, D Volkmann - … aspect of plant life., Spriger Berlin …, 2006 - Springer
As we enter the new millennium, plant biology is witnessing dramatic advancements in
studies related to the complex behaviour of higher plants which are now beginning to reveal …

Competition and allometry in three species of annual plants

J Weiner, SC Thomas - Ecology, 1992 - Wiley Online Library
Comparisons between competing and noncompeting populations of three annual plant
species demonstrate that plant allometry is altered by competition. When plants are grown in …