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Why Be a Shrub? A Basic Model and Hypotheses for the Adaptive Values of a Common Growth Form

Shrubs are multi-stemmed short woody plants, more widespread than trees, important in many ecosystems, neglected in ecology compared to herbs and trees, but currently in focus due to their global expansion. We present a novel model based on scaling relationships and four hypotheses to explain the ad...

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Autores principales: Götmark, Frank, Götmark, Elin, Jensen, Anna M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4961008/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27507981
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2016.01095