Plant clonality, the ability of a plant species to reproduce itself vegetatively through ramets
(shoot-root units), occurs in many plant species and is considered to be more frequent in
cold or wet environments. However, a deeper understanding on the clonality-climate
relationships along large geographic gradients is still scarce. In this study we revealed the
clonality-climate relationships along latitudinal gradient of entire China spanning from
tropics to temperate zones using clonality data for 4015 vascular plant species in 545 …

… (2014) Clonality-Climate Relationships along Latitudinal Gradient across China:
Adaptation of Clonality to Environments. PLoS ONE 9(4): e94009. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0094009 …
Relationships between proportion of clonal species and climatic variables (MAT: mean
annual temperature, MAP: mean annual precipitation, TS: temperature seasonality and PS:
precipitation seasonality). a–d: proportion of all clonal species vs climatic variables; e–h:
proportion of woody clonal species vs climatic variables; i–l: proportion of herbaceous …