Reducing size to increase number: a hypothesis for compound leaves
Adaptive advantages of the compound leaf form in flowering plants have so far remained elusive. A novel idea—proposed here—is that there are no direct advantages; the compound leaf evolved instead as a trade-off of selection in favour of something else: greater leafing intensity. Producing more l...
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| Language: | English |
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Queen's University
2012-02-01
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| Series: | Ideas in Ecology and Evolution |
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| Online Access: | https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/IEE/article/view/4274 |