Disentangling coordination among functional traits using an individual-centred model: impact on plant performance at intra- and inter-specific levels.

BACKGROUND:Plant functional traits co-vary along strategy spectra, thereby defining trade-offs for resource acquisition and utilization amongst other processes. A main objective of plant ecology is to quantify the correlations among traits and ask why some of them are sufficiently closely coordinate...

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Main Authors: Vincent Maire, Nicolas Gross, David Hill, Raphaël Martin, Christian Wirth, Ian J Wright, Jean-François Soussana
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3793938?pdf=render