BOT322 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Taxonomic Rank, Phenotypic Plasticity, Behavioral Ecology
19 Nov 2018
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The plant traits that drive ecosystems: evidence from three continents. Independent of geographical location and taxonomic affinity. important in predicting certain populations in the face of some source of stress. Focusing on the metaphor: plant root foraging behaviour. 2009: plants exhibit behavior analogous to animal behavior, but rarely studied. 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.
