Architectural and growth traits differ in effects on performance of clonal plants: an analysis using a field-parameterized simulation model

Abstract

Individual traits are often assumed to be linked in a straightforward manner to plant performance and processes such as population growth, competition and community dynamics. However, because no trait functions in isolation in an organism, the effect of

Keywords

• solidago-altissima
• size inequalities
• competition
• integration
• populations
• community
• ecology
• grassland
• light
• consequences