Environmental and ontogenetic effects on intraspecific trait variation of a macrophyte species across five ecological scales.

Although functional trait variability is increasingly used in community ecology, the scale- and size-dependent aspects of trait variation are usually disregarded. Here we quantified the spatial structure of shoot height, branch length, root/shoot ratio and leaf number in a macrophyte species Potamog...

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Main Authors: Hui Fu, Guixiang Yuan, Jiayou Zhong, Te Cao, Leyi Ni, Ping Xie
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3633840?pdf=render