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Have plants evolved to self-immolate?

By definition fire prone ecosystems have highly combustible plants, leading to the hypothesis, first formally stated by Mutch in 1970, that community flammability is the product of natural selection of flammable traits. However, proving the “Mutch hypothesis” has presented an enormous challenge for...

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Autores principales: Bowman, David M. J. S., French, Ben J., Prior, Lynda D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4220095/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25414710
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2014.00590