BOT322 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Four-Dimensional Space, Light-Independent Reactions, Vascular Bundle
7 Dec 2018
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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. Plant"s realized niche will interact with these factors: taking all of these concepts and different types of niches together, plant traits such as plasticity will lead to individual plants not responding to identical environments in an identical way. Foraging can be viewed as not defending against predators. Does it work for plants: plants can have opportunity costs too. Morphological aspects: reduction in leaf area rolling and curling of leaves to reduce leaf surface area exposed to sunlight, waxy leaf surface form a thick cuticle on leaves to reduce transpiration losses. Behavioral aspects: drought avoidance die within the year (act as an annual) invest all your energy in reproduction rather than long-term survival, although some characteristics of drought tolerance plants, more of drought avoidance.
