Triffids were, admittedly, a bit weird—but that was, after all, just because they were novelties.
People had felt the same about novelties of other days—about kangaroos, giant lizards …

1 Studies of morphological plasticity in clonal plants have analysed responses to habitat
quality in terms of spacer (stolon or rhizome internode) length and branching intensity. The …

1 Habitat heterogeneity is manifested as patches differing in quality at a variety of spatial
scales, durations or contrasts, but little is known about its effects on the capacity of plants to …

Plant species from open habitats often show pronounced responses to shading. Apart from a
reduction in growth, shading can lead to marked changes in morphology and architecture …

1 To allow assessment of the ability of plants to exploit heterogeneous habitats, the growth
of the stoloniferous herb Glechoma hederacea was compared in three artificial soil …

Clonal growth is an important attribute of many groups of plants and animals (White 1979,
Harper et al. 1986). In the plant kingdom, phyla from all evolutionary levels show the …

Summary 1 We report on an experimental investigation into the effects of contrast in patch
quality and patch size upon the performance of the clonal herb Glechoma hederacea in …

Shade-induced changes in the branching pattern of clonal plants can lead to conspicuous
modifications of their growth form and architecture. It has been hypothesized that reduced …

Plant form and spatial structure reflect the basic architectural blue-print of a plant. In most
plant species, the expression of the structural blue-print is systematically altered during …

The present experiment investigates the morphological plasticity of Lamiastrum galeobdolon
(L.) Ehrend. & Polatschek in response to light patchiness. In a garden experiment, stolons of …