Implications of self/non-self discrimination for spatial patterning of clonal plants

Abstract

Many clonal plants are characterised by tussock growth forms, but the mechanisms that account for their formation and maintenance are still vague. Here we examine the possible effects of the recently identified phenomenon of self/non-self discrimination

Keywords

• clonal plants
• clustering
• competition
• facilitation
• scaling up
• morphogenetical controls
• self/non-self
• tussocks
• growth
• communities
• competition
• demography
• roots
• model
• facilitation
• simulation
• vegetation
• dynamics