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Plant clonal traits, coexistence and turnover in East Ladakh, Trans-Himalaya

SYSNO ASEP	0369570
Document Type	J - Journal Article
R&D Document Type	Journal Article
Subsidiary J	Článek ve WOS
Title	Plant clonal traits, coexistence and turnover in East Ladakh, Trans-Himalaya
Author(s)	de Bello, Francesco (BU-J)_{RID, ORCID} Doležal, Jiří (BU-J)_{RID, ORCID} Ricotta, C. (IT) Klimešová, Jitka (BU-J)_{RID, ORCID}
Number of authors	4
Source Title	Preslia. - : Česká botanická společnost - ISSN 0032-7786 Roč. 83, č. 3 (2011), 315-327
Number of pages	13 s.
Language	eng - English
Country	CZ - Czech Republic
Keywords	abiotic and biotic factors ; functional traits ; neutral theory
Subject RIV	EF - Botanics
R&D Projects	IAA600050802 GA AV ČR - Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (AV ČR)
CEZ	AV0Z60050516 - BU-J (2005-2011)
UT WOS	000295384300004
Annotation	To what extent does plant clonality contribute to the assemblage of species in communities? Two apparently contrasting, and largely untested, hypotheses envisage the potential role of plant clonal traits in community assembly: (i) environmental filters constrain coexisting species to have functionally similar traits (i.e. trait convergence); (ii) niche differentiation selects for functionally dissimilar species (i.e. trait divergence) allowing them to exploit different spatial and temporal niches. These hypotheses are assessed using a large dataset of 369 plots (100 m2) covering altitudes between 4100 and 5800 m a.s.l. and including the major vegetation types found in Ladakh, NW Himalaya. Patterns of clonal traits, coexistence and turnover were assessed using a functional diversity partitioning framework in the context of different null models.
Workplace	Institute of Botany
Contact	Martina Bartošová, martina.bartosova@ibot.cas.cz, ibot@ibot.cas.cz, Tel.: 271 015 242 ; Marie Jakšová, marie.jaksova@ibot.cas.cz, Tel.: 384 721 156-8
Year of Publishing	2012

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