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F. C. Meinzer
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Form And Function ◽  
Tropical Alpine ◽  
Plant Form ◽  
And Function ◽  
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Tropical Alpine Environments: Plant Form and Function.

1995 ◽  
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pp. 555
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P. W. Rundel ◽  
A. P. Smith ◽  
F. C. Meinzer
Keyword(s):  
Form And Function ◽  
Tropical Alpine ◽  
Plant Form ◽  
And Function ◽  
Alpine Environments

Tropical Alpine Environments: Plant Form and Function

1995 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 84
Author(s):  
Douglas Sheil ◽  
Philip W. Rundel ◽  
Alan P. Smith ◽  
F. C. Meinzer
Keyword(s):  
Form And Function ◽  
Tropical Alpine ◽  
Plant Form ◽  
And Function ◽  
Alpine Environments

Tropical Alpine Environments: Plant Form and Function

1996 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 126
Author(s):  
Francisco L. Perez ◽  
Philip W. Rundel ◽  
Alan P. Smith ◽  
F. C. Meinzer
Keyword(s):  
Form And Function ◽  
Tropical Alpine ◽  
Plant Form ◽  
And Function ◽  
Alpine Environments

scholarly journals PhenoSpace: A Shiny application to visualize trait data in the phenotypic space of the global spectrum of plant form and function

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 1526-1534
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Jules Segrestin ◽  
Kevin Sartori ◽  
Marie‐Laure Navas ◽  
Jens Kattge ◽  
Sandra Díaz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Form And Function ◽  
Plant Form ◽  
And Function ◽  
Shiny Application

Environmental–biomechanical reciprocity and the evolution of plant material properties

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karl J Niklas ◽  
Frank W Telewski
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Physical Environment ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Abiotic Factors ◽  
Biotic Interactions ◽  
Cellular Solids ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
Evolutionary Innovation ◽  
Plant Form ◽  
And Function ◽  
Abiotic Environmental Factors

Abstract Abiotic–biotic interactions have shaped organic evolution since life first began. Abiotic factors influence growth, survival, and reproductive success, whereas biotic responses to abiotic factors have changed the physical environment (and indeed created new environments). This reciprocity is well illustrated by land plants who begin and end their existence in the same location while growing in size over the course of years or even millennia, during which environment factors change over many orders of magnitude. A biomechanical, ecological, and evolutionary perspective reveals that plants are (i) composed of materials (cells and tissues) that function as cellular solids (i.e. materials composed of one or more solid and fluid phases); (ii) that have evolved greater rigidity (as a consequence of chemical and structural changes in their solid phases); (iii) allowing for increases in body size and (iv) permitting acclimation to more physiologically and ecologically diverse and challenging habitats; which (v) have profoundly altered biotic as well as abiotic environmental factors (e.g. the creation of soils, carbon sequestration, and water cycles). A critical component of this evolutionary innovation is the extent to which mechanical perturbations have shaped plant form and function and how form and function have shaped ecological dynamics over the course of evolution.

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