Next to its well-described ecological advantages, clonal growth in plants may incur fitness
costs, which are associated with the effects of typically large clonal individuals on the …

Disturbances play a major role in structuring the community composition in a variety of
ecosystems. The potential impact of disturbances on sexual reproduction and genetic …

In Europe, many contemporary forests are not continuous, but were established on former
agricultural land in territories of deserted villages. We aimed to explore whether medieval …

Background There has always been controversy over whether clonal plants have lower
genetic diversity than plants that reproduce sexually. These conflicts could be attributed to …

Abstract Background and Aims Clonal growth is a common phenomenon in plants and
allows them to persist when sexual life-cycle completion is impeded. Very low levels of …

En las especies clonales predomina la distribución agregada de los ramets, pero se plantea
que la propagación por diásporas móviles o no ligadas,(por ejemplo, bulbilos y semillas …

Most vascular plant taxa are able to reproduce vegetatively in addition to sexual
reproduction. Some plants even survive despite of (near to exclusive) sexual sterility …

Relatively few studies conducted in natural plants populations focus on the relationship
between seed size and their germination ability and seedling establishment. Maianthemum …

Using a combined morpho-ecological and molecular (amplified fragment length
polymorphism (AFLP) fingerprinting) approach, clonal growth, clonal reproduction and the …

PREMISE OF THE STUDY: Understanding the underlying mechanisms for the evolution of
intercontinental disjunct patterns has long fascinated botanists. We present a molecular …