Background Clonal plants spread laterally by spacers between their ramets (shoot–root
units); these spacers can transport and store resources. While much is known about how …

Clonal plants spread vegetatively within their habitats by forming rooted ramets on stolons or
rhizomes. Each of these ramets is capable of an independent existence after establishment …

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Seeds have often been emphasized in estimates of plant fitness because they are the units
that carry genes to the next generation, disperse, and found new populations. We contend …

Clonal plants that can switch facultatively between sexual and asexual reproduction may
respond plastically to the environment. We constructed a dynamic state variable model to …

Background and Aims A phalanx growth form enables clonal plants to make better use of
resource-rich patches, whereas a guerrilla growth form provides them with opportunities to …

Physiological integration between ramets has been observed in several clonal plant
species. But consequences of integration on the competitive ability and spatial development …

Due to changes in Chinese land-use policy in the mid-1980s, increased livestock
populations have imposed a significant impact on the diversity of Seriphidium borotalense …

Most plants are clonal ie able to laterally propagate by producing new genetically identical
ramets connected by specialized clonal organs. Clonality determines ramet aggregation …

1 The morphological plasticity of sun and shade branches of Pinus sylvestris growing at the
edge of a 'tree‐patch'created in 1989, when surrounding trees were removed, was …