Sentence examples for plants convergence from inspiring English sources
In plants, convergence has been suggested to explain the striking similarity in life form between the giant lobelioids (Campanulaceae, the bellflower family) of Africa and the Hawaiian Islands.
Under input constraints and for this nonlinear plant, a fast convergence rate is obtained with the proposed controller, showing good operational results.
The recent discovery that several ascomycetous insect pathogens are also able to form plant root associations suggests a possible convergence in plant symbiosis and nutrient exchange strategies between these fungi and the Glomeromycota as well as some of the ectomycorrhizal fungi.
Here I explore how these evolutionary basins of attraction have caused convergence between plants and animals.
A potential ecological explanation for the phylogenetic signal for AMF associations among co-occurring plants is phenological filtering (convergence of AMF communities among plants in response to their having similar phenologies).
From tropics to tundra: Global convergence in plant functioning.
Reich, P. B., Walters, M. B. & Ellsworth, D. S. From tropics to tundra: global convergence in plant functioning.
In order to avoid the truncation procedure it is proposed that pole placement be used to shorten the impulse response of the plant and thus guarantee convergence.
Here I suggest that, as is so often the case, nature has "invented" rebar long before the human application of the practice, and indeed the use of rebar by living organisms has led to convergence in plant and animal lineages.
Such convergence on plant leaf function has been demonstrated across contrasting biomes from deserts to tropical forests and across hundreds of species from herbs to evergreen trees and ferns to flowering plants (Reich et al. 1997; Ackerly and Reich 1999; Wright et al. 2007; Zhang et al. 2015).
However, morphological convergence among alpine plants may also be strongly affected by understudied environmental interactions, such as with the intense solar radiation experienced during the daytime in alpine areas or the cold night time temperatures [ 31].
