1. Incorporating clonality into the plant ecology research agenda
- Author
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Stefano Chelli, Tristan Charles-Dominique, Roberto Canullo, F. Curtis Lubbe, Giandiego Campetella, Jitka Klimešová, Jana Martínková, Zdeněk Janovský, Tomáš Herben, Gianluigi Ottaviani, Charles University [Prague] (CU), Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences (IB / CAS), Czech Academy of Sciences [Prague] (CAS), Institut d'écologie et des sciences de l'environnement de Paris (iEES Paris ), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 (UPEC UP12)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Università degli Studi di Camerino = University of Camerino (UNICAM), Institut d'écologie et des sciences de l'environnement de Paris (iEES Paris), and Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 (UPEC UP12)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
- Subjects
0106 biological sciences ,belowground organs ,[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio] ,Population Dynamics ,Population ,clonality ,Plant Science ,Biology ,010603 evolutionary biology ,01 natural sciences ,plant functions ,education ,Productivity ,Ecosystem ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS ,Clonal growth ,education.field_of_study ,Ecology ,business.industry ,fungi ,Environmental resource management ,food and beverages ,Plants ,[SDV.BV.BOT]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Vegetal Biology/Botanics ,15. Life on land ,Plant ecology ,[SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology ,business ,010606 plant biology & botany - Abstract
International audience; A longstanding research divide exists in plant ecology: either focusing on plant clonality, with no ambition to address nonclonal plants, or focusing on all plants, ignoring that many ecological processes can be affected by the fact that some plants are clonal while others are not. This gap cascades into a lack of distinction and knowledge about the similarities and differences between clonal and nonclonal plants. Here we aim to bridge this gap by identifying areas that would benefit from the incorporation of clonal growth into one integrated research platform: namely, response to productivity and disturbance, biotic interactions, and population dynamics. We are convinced that this will provide a roadmap to gain valuable insights into the ecoevolutionary dynamics relevant to all plants.
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- 2021