The Contrasting Roles of Growth Traits and Architectural Traits in Diversity Maintenance in Clonal Plant Communities

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/67985939:_____/12:00436202

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/668013" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/668013</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/668013" target="_blank" >10.1086/668013</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Contrasting Roles of Growth Traits and Architectural Traits in Diversity Maintenance in Clonal Plant Communities

Original language description

Plant communities often exhibit high diversity, even though pairwise experiments usually result in competitive hierarchies that should result in competitive exclusion. Such experiments, however, do not typically allow expression of spatial traits, despite theoretical studies showing the potential importance of spatial mechanisms of diversity maintenance. Here we ask whether, in a clonal plant model system, spatial trait variation is more likely than growth trait variation to maintain diversity. We useda field-calibrated, spatially explicit model to simulate communities comprising sets of four simulated species differing in only one of a suite of architectural or growth traits at a time, examining their dynamics and long-term diversity. To compare trait manipulation effects across traits measured in different units, we scaled traits to have identical effects on initial productivity. We found that in communities of species differing only in an architectural trait, all species usually pe

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

EH - Ecology - communities

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/GA206%2F09%2F1471" target="_blank" >GA206/09/1471: Species traits as determinants of community and ecosystem properties in herbaceous plant communities: an approach using removal experiments</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2012

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

American Naturalist

ISSN

0003-0147

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

180

Issue of the periodical within the volume

6

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

693-706

UT code for WoS article

000311090100003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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