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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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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |