Plant height and evolutionary games

By Daniel S. Falster, M. Westoby. 2003

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Flowering phenology and height growth pattern are associated with maximum plant height, relative growth rate and stem tissue mass density in herbaceous grassland species (2011, background): “Although different height growth strategies or trajectories have been reported for woody species (Falster & Westoby 2003, 2005a,b), little is known about height growth patterns and associated mechanisms in herbaceous species.”
How fundamental plant functional trait relationships scale‐up to trade‐offs and synergies in ecosystem services (2012, background): “…further elucidation because on the one hand, itmay reflect both a cause and a consequence of environmental variation, as in the case of light availability, and on the other hand, individual plant size is strongly determined by community interactions (Westoby et al. 2002; Falster & Westoby 2003).”
Fertility trends by social status (2008, background): “When attaining status is likely to decrease long-term reproductive success, biologists may describe status-seeking as evolutionary " maladaptive " (Dieckmann and Ferrière 2004, Falster and Westoby 2003).”
Small‐seeded species produce more seeds per square metre of canopy per year, but not per individual per lifetime (2004, background): “…across habitats by light environment (Salisbury 1974; Rees 1996), because competition for light increases plant height (Givnish 1982; Iwasa et al. 1985; King 1990; Falster & Westoby 2003) and shaded environments favour species with larger seeds (Salisbury 1974; Thompson & Hodkinson 1998).”
Soil fertility induces coordinated responses of multiple independent functional traits (2015, background): “…that height comes at an increased cost of investment of resources for support and continuous maintenance costs for the stems and vascular tissues (Falster & Westoby 2003), and increase in height tends to increase the associated risks of cavitation of vascular tissue (Niklas 2007; Moles et al.…”
Shifts in trait means and variances in North American tree assemblages: species richness patterns are loosely related to the functional space (2015, background): “Maximum height is related to competition for light (Falster and Westoby 2003) and it should be primarily constrained by water stress (Ryan and Yoder 1997).”
Towards a trait-based quantification of species niche (2009, background): “For instance, plants tend to be taller on evolutionary time scales in relation to competition for light (Falster and Westoby 2003), in an attempt to intercept more light by overtopping the canopy (plant height considered as a functional response trait) as well as to reduce the light resource…”
Competition for Nutrients and Optimal Root Allocation (2006, background): “…the high RLD of plants such as prairie grasses could be due to competition among plants for N, similar to how competition for light causes increases the allocation of resources to stems and leaves over what is optimal in the absence of competition (Anten and Hirose 2001; Falster and Westoby 2003).”
Biotic and abiotic variables show little redundancy in explaining tree species distributions (2010, background): “Competitive advantage can depend on relative rather than the absolute height (Falster and Westoby 2003).”
Rebuilding community ecology from functional traits. (2006, background): “We can then ask whether a new strategy can invade depending on the milieu already present [ 22 ], but the dynamical time-course need not be treated in detail.”
Functional distinctiveness of major plant lineages (2014, background): “Canopy height at maturation varies more than 10 000-fold and captures an aspect of light competition and life span of the main stem (Falster & Westoby 2003; Moles et al. 2009).”
Trade‐off between light interception efficiency and light use efficiency: implications for species coexistence in one‐sided light competition (2014, background): “Falster & Westoby (2003) stated that if plant communities are truly cooperatively organized, vegetation would be a thin skin of green near the ground, without expenditure on stems detracting from the production.”