Instead, it can establish significant responses by taking a population approach to ramets and shoots over the entire depth range studied.
Particularly within clumps of wild cherry occurrences, a genotype that consists of dozens of ramets is more likely to have some ramets escape herbivory than a genotype that consists of a single stem [ 16].
Ramets per 100 m2 were measured by noting the total number of ramets in a plot and then converting that to 100 m2, a reflection of alterations to ramet density from fire-induced mortality.
The fragmentation of ramets of a large genet in C. amara could potentially enhance male siring success of FS genets if each ramet is able to take advantage of the steepest parts of the male fitness gain curve, particularly if the fitness gain curve is strongly saturating (Dorken and van Drunen, 2010).
Survival was defined as: Survival = (N 2005 – D 2006)/N 2005, where N 2005 was the number of ramets surveyed in a mat in each year, and D 2006 was the number of ramets surveyed in 2005 that had died by 2006.
Because individuals with the same MLG found in populations with both sexual and vegetative reproduction can be either ramets of the same genet or derive by chance from distinct events of sexual reproduction, we used the program GIMLET 1.3.2 [ 31] to estimate the probability that two individuals, randomly sampled from a population, shared the same MLG by chance (probability of identity: PI).
Because of its higher intuitive appeal we however prefer the average number of ramets per genet as a measure of the individual genet cloning success.
Recruitment (new ramets in 2006) and population change (total ramets in 2006) were modeled as a rate relative to the initial ramets per mat by using a Poisson distribution with a log link, and adding an offset of the log of the number of initial ramets in 2005.
It would therefore require very large numbers of ramets of one clone in order to reach a sizable probability of detecting a mutational event.
These species have a similar developmental pattern: they both grow by means of aboveground stolons composed of ramets and each ramet consists of one internode, one leaf, one meristem located in the leaf axil (potentially differentiating into a flower or a side branch) and root primordia (Huber and Wiggerman 1997; Huber and During 2000; Huber et al. 2009).
