BOT322 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Four-Dimensional Space, Anemophily, Vascular Bundle
18 Oct 2018
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Bot 322 midterm: biogeographic studies of plant diversity show different regions of the earth contain different clades and will contain unique species, even if local climatic conditions are similar. However, functional studies of plant traits do not typically show similar patterns, and instead most regions contain similar ranges of plant traits even when species composition differs. In your answer consider both univariate and multivariate concepts, as well as the different types of niche we discussed in class. A: plant traits such as functional traits define species in context of their ecological roles. As a niche is an abstract concept and a n-dimensional hypervolume according to the. Doing so is fundamentally counter to tradition in plant biology, and leads us to discuss plant foraging rather than plant nutrition, or social context instead of competitive suppression. Here you are to choose either of these concepts, or any others presented in lecture/readings in class this term.
