Why are plants carnivorous? Cost/benefit analysis, whole-plant growth, and the context-specific advantages of botanical carnivory
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198779841.003.0018" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198779841.003.0018</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198779841.003.0018" target="_blank" >10.1093/oso/9780198779841.003.0018</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Why are plants carnivorous? Cost/benefit analysis, whole-plant growth, and the context-specific advantages of botanical carnivory
Original language description
The 1984 cost/benefit model for the evolution of carnivorous plants addresses their potential energetic and ecological advantages. It has provided a conceptual framework for research on distribution, variation in trap allocation and mechanisms, association with low rates of photosynthesis and whole-plant growth, and ecology of carnivorous plants relative to noncarnivorous ones. We re-assess this model, its potential extensions, and the validity of its assumptions and predictions. We review what is known about photosynthesis, respiration, relative growth rates, and resource allocation in carnivorous and noncarnivorous plants, and growth, nutrient limitation and stoichiometry, adaptation to different prey, and optimal trap allocation of carnivorous plants. We propose explanations for six ecological and evolutionary paradoxes involving carnivorous plants. Future advances will hinge on better quantification of the cost/benefit model and comparing model predictions with data.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10611 - Plant sciences, botany
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/LO1204" target="_blank" >LO1204: Sustainable development of research in the Centre of the Region Haná</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Carnivorous Plants Physiology, ecology, and evolution
ISBN
978-0-19-877984-1
Number of pages of the result
24
Pages from-to
232-255
Number of pages of the book
560
Publisher name
Oxford University Press
Place of publication
New York, USA
UT code for WoS chapter
000441281500020