Sentence examples for spatial plant from inspiring English sources

Above- and belowground plant traits associated with spatial (plant height, leaf area, rooting depth, and root length density) and temporal resource acquisition (growth start, flowering start) were selected to design communities with different levels of functional diversity as well as to calculate realized community means weighted by plant species cover.

However, even though recent simulation tools have occasionally been applied for climate-sensitive animal species (e.g. [ 3- 7]), spatial plant population models are extremely scarce (see review in [ 8]).

Large herbivores select food at several spatial scales: plant communities are chosen at a landscape scale, plant patches are chosen within a plant community, and individual plants within a patch.

(c) What are the relative contributions of spatial effects, plant distribution and variation among individual dispersers (lizards) to plant recruitment kernels?

Water-use efficiency at the whole-plant level, defined as the ratio of actual dry matter production to water consumption (WUEwp), represents a large spatial (whole plant) and temporal scale (whole growth period) water use that is closely associated with the physiological processes of plants, such as photosynthesis, respiration and transpiration (Flexas et al. 2010).

By exploring different spatial niches, plants with contrasting root architecture may reduce the extent of competition among neighbouring root systems.

Here a general spatial individual-plant modelling framework implemented in the siplab R package was used, testing several alternative assumptions about neighbouring tree interactions ([García 2014]).

Early-season colonization of whitefly infested seedlings by parasitoids was erratic and characterized by large spatial (inter-plant and inter-plot) and temporal variation.

Changes in the spatial distribution of plant community and plant roots caused by environmental changes influence significantly the effects of plant roots on slope stabilization (Cammeraat et al. 2005; Normaniza et al. 2008; Burylo et al. 2012).

This framework is particularly important for the study of endangered plants affected by mutualism disruption [32], because the information relating seed-dispersal scale and frugivore behaviour may be used to quantify the effect of disperser loss (or its potential reintroduction) on the spatial patterns of plant recruitment and, through them, on plant population dynamics [33], [34].

Our predictions indicate the existence of spatial variation in plant recruitment and dispersal distance (i.e. in potential plant fitness; Figure 4), arising exclusively from their spatial position in relation to lizard territories-rather than from individual variation in certain plant traits (such as fruit production; [13]).