Li-Ting Zheng et al. how the interplay between environmental conditions and neighborhood interactions modulates plant ecological strategies among locally co-occurring individuals.

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Direction and degree of responses of plant architectural (a), leaf, and wood economics (b) traits to tree size, neighborhood shading, crowding, soil fertility, soil moisture and their interactions at the species level.

🔗Individual-level neighborhood interactions and environment ➡️ Individual-level trait correlations and divergent functional trade-offs🔗

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Neighborhood interactions and environment modulate individual-level trait correlations and divergent functional trade-offs among co-occurring trees Abstract. Individual-level neighborhood interactions and environment are predominant drivers that maintain the diversity of plant form and function within

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Neighborhood interactions and environment modulate individual-level #TraitCorrelations and divergent functional trade-offs among co-occurring trees

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