What does body size mean, from the "plant's eye view"?

ABSTRACT: Alternative metrics exist for representing variation in plant body size, but the vast majority of previous research for herbaceous plants has focused on dry mass. Dry mass provides a reasonably accurate and easily measured estimate for comparing relative capacity to convert solar energy into stored carbon. However, from a "plant's eye view", its experience of its local biotic environment of immediate neighbors (especially when crowded) may be more accurately represented by measures of "space occupancy" (S-O) recorded in situ-rather than dry mass measured after storage in a drying oven. This study investigated relationships between dry mass and alternative metrics of S-O body size for resident plants sampled from natural populations of herbaceous species found in Eastern Ontario. Pla

SUBMITTER: Tracey AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5513261 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature