A longstanding research divide exists in plant ecology: either focusing on plant clonality,
with no ambition to address nonclonal plants, or focusing on all plants, ignoring that many …

Background Clonal plants spread laterally by spacers between their ramets (shoot–root
units); these spacers can transport and store resources. While much is known about how …

Clonal growth of plants is attained by a number of morphologically different organs (eg
stolons, rhizomes, and roots), which are not functionally equivalent. Consequently, these …

Clonal growth confers a number of benefits on plants, but involves some costs as well. We
examined whether seed reproduction is reduced in clonal plants due to these costs. Further …

The high rate of climate change may soon expose plants to conditions beyond their
adaptation limits. Clonal plants might be particularly affected due to limited genotypic …

In macroecology, shifting from coarse-to local-scale explanatory factors is crucial for
understanding how global change impacts functional diversity (FD). Plants possess diverse …

Functional traits have been defined as those that affect organismal performance, that is
growth and development, reproduction and survival, so they have been generally …

Plants with clonal growth can produce multiple potentially independent units, termed ramets.
Clonal growth can have important ecological and evolutionary consequences, such as by …

In climate change ecology, simplistic research approaches may yield unrealistically
simplistic answers to often more complicated problems. In particular, the complexity of …

Plants rely on roots for absorption of nutrients from the soil. Differences in traits of fine roots
and of the root system in general thus underlie differences among individual species in their …