What drives the shift between sexual and clonal reproduction of Caragana stenophylla along a climatic aridity gradient?
Abstract Background The reasons that clonal plants shift between sexual and clonal reproduction have persisted as a knowledge gap in ecological literature. We hypothesized that clonal plants’ shifts between sexual and clonal reproduction in different environments are driven by the relative costs of...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2018-05-01
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| Series: | BMC Plant Biology |
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12870-018-1313-6 |