ReviewFrontiers in plant science2016
Ecological Consequences of Clonal Integration in Plants.
Review in Frontiers in plant science, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 49 papers.
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- The influence of reproductive mode on resource competition and diversity patterns in Ediacaran early animal communities.Nature ecology & evolution · 2026Article
- Belowground clonal expansion and biomass allocation of Phragmites australis along a sand burial gradient in mobile dunes.BMC plant biology · 2026Article
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- Physiological Responses of Dominant Alpine Plant Species to Environmental Gradients on the Tibetan Plateau.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- From rhizome diffusion to programmable architecture: a systems framework for controllable spatial expansion in bamboo and other clonal plants.Frontiers in plant science · 2026Review
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- Machine learning and digital imaging for spatiotemporal monitoring of stress dynamics in the clonal plant Carpobrotus edulis: uncovering a functional mosaic.Annals of botany · 2025Article
- Unique genetic bases of repeated life-history divergence associated with high altitude adaptation inbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Sex-Specific Responses of Sexual Reproduction, Clonal Reproduction, and Vegetative Growth to Environmental (Biotic and Abiotic) Factors in the Clonal Dioecious PlantPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Flower Position and Clonal Integration Drive Intra-Individual Floral Trait Variation in Water-Hyacinth (Biology · 2025Article
- Diverse climbing strategies in aroid vines: functional adaptations and environmental drivers.Frontiers in plant science · 2025Review
- Metabolic plasticity and adaptive evolution inFrontiers in plant science · 2025Review
- Regeneration Limitations ofEcology and evolution · 2024Article
- Strategies of resource sharing in clonal plants: a conceptual model and an example of contrasting strategies in two closely related species.Annals of botany · 2024Article
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Abstract
Clonal plants are widespread throughout the plant kingdom and dominate in diverse habitats. Spatiotemporal heterogeneity of environment is pervasive at multiple scales, even at scales relevant to individual plants. Clonal integration refers to resource translocation and information communication among the ramets of clonal plants. Due to clonal integration, clonal plant species possess a series of peculiar attributes: plasticity in response to local and non-local conditions, labor division with organ specialization for acquiring locally abundant resources, foraging behavior by selective placement of ramets in resource-rich microhabitats, and avoidance of intraclonal competition. Clonal integration has very profound ecological consequences for clonal plants. It allows them to efficiently cope with environmental heterogeneity, by alleviating local resource shortages, buffering environmental stresses and disturbances, influencing competitive ability, increasing invasiveness, and altering species composition and invasibility at the community level. In this paper, we present a comprehensive review of research on the ecological consequences of plant clonal integration based on a large body of literature. We also attempt to propose perspectives for future research.
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