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Journal of Plant Ecology Advance Access originally published online on March 13, 2008
Journal of Plant Ecology 2008 1(1):75-77; doi:10.1093/jpe/rtn004
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Nutrient-patch contrast in relation to clonal integration, with special reference to Glechoma longituba

Lili Zhang and Weiming He*

State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China

* Correspondence address. State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China. Tel: 86-10-82595899; Fax: 86-10-82595899; E-mail: weiminghe@ibcas.ac.cn.

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Patch contrast, defined as the difference between patches, is among the basic traits of environmental heterogeneity (Kolasa and Pickett 1991; Stuefer 1996). Clonal plants, especially those with long spacers, usually experience certain patches with different nutrient-patch contrasts (de Kroon et al. 2005; Stuefer 1996). Clonal integration has been recognized as a basic strategy, by which clonal plants can effectively cope with patchy resources and increase their fitness in such habitats (de Kroon et al. 2005; Zhang et al. 2007). Glechoma longituba is distributed . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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