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Heterogeneity is widespread in natural environments; as a result, connected clonal ramets often live in areas characterized by patches of different resources. Specifically, clonal plants are frequently affected by conditions of heterogeneous water stress. This raises the question of how clonal plants grow and reproduce in areas with patches of different resources. In this study, we investigated the adaptation mechanisms of clonal plants under heterogeneous environmental conditions. On the one hand, we bore in mind that phenotypic plasticity is abundantly exhibited in clonal plants. Clonal plants respond to water stress mainly through regulation of the size of individuals, the allocation of population biomass, and the number of daughter plants, as well as the extension ability and branching intensity of clonal organs, which directly affect reproduction and population stability in clonal plants. On the other hand, we also considered the physiological integration in clonal plants which has been shown in many studies. Ramets of clonal plants normally stay connected to each other through horizontal connectors (stolons or rhizomes). Communicated substances and resources such as water, mi

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Author

Pan Yang; Li Huang; Suni He; Xianghua Zeng; Yinyi Chen; Haimiao Wang

Publisher

MDPI AG

Published

2023

Language

EN

Field

Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)