Ivan Nijs

Keping Ma

Lanke Fu

Shichang Wang

Zhenguo Liu

Zhenqing Li

of Botany,Chinese Academy Of Sciences

Effects of resource availability on the trade-off between seed and vegetative reproduction

Abstract: Aims To explore whether the trade-off between seed and vegetative reproductive modes is flexible in environments with different amounts of available resources to maintain optimal behaviors. Methods A transition matrix model was established to determine the optimal trade-off between seed and vegetative reproduction in resourcesvariable habitats. Important Findings The model predicts that plants allocate more resources to seed reproduction when available resources are scarce. With increasing resources, more vegetative propagules are produced. However, if resources keep increasing to a harmful level, plants would switch to seeds again

Effects of resource availability on the trade-off between seed and vegetative reproduction

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