The physical avoidance of overwinter damage is important for determining the success of
herbaceous perennial plants in climates with cold winters. Exposure to damaging frost can …

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 …

Major dimensions of plant ecological strategies have been widely studied bringing forward
the concept of 'economic spectra'of plants. Sexual reproductive traits,'floral traits', have been …

Plant trait variation is constrained by mechanical and energetic trade‐offs as attested by the
global spectrum of plant form and function and the fine‐root economics space for above‐and …

Summary Non‐structural carbohydrates (NSCs), as the labile fraction and dominant carbon
currency, are essential mediators of plant adaptation to environments. However, whether …

Perennial herbaceous plants in seasonal temperate climates must form belowground
storage organs to contain carbohydrates for seasonal regrowth and to mitigate disturbance …

Nonstructural carbohydrates (NSC) are the crucial components of plant metabolism, and
NSC dynamics provide essential information on plant carbon balance, which usually …

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 …

Abstract Background and Aims Several lines of evidence indicate that carbohydrate storage
in plant below-ground organs might be positively related to genome size because both …

Premise Biomass accumulation over years in vertical stems of trees leads to hypoallometric
scaling between stem and leaf biomass within this growth form, while for herbaceous …