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Predictability of plant resource allocation: New theory needed?
In: Growth and Defence in Plants. Berlin ; Heidelberg: Springer, 2012. 433-449 (Ecol. Stud. ; 220)
Predictability is examined in plant responsiveness to stress, along with extents of resource trade-offs in growth/defence allocation, value of conflicting findings for theory development, and eventually, need for new theoretical concepts on the book’s subject. “Opportunities” are summarized plants possess in regulating resource allocation beyond apparent trade-offs and their associated “opportunity costs”, mediating to empirical and theoretical means for enhancing predictability. Acknowledging high functional and structural plasticity, and hence complexity, in plant responsiveness as a key feature of evolutionary success, both empirical capacities of molecular research are summarized in strengthening predictability across spatio-temporal scales and modelling as interacting theoretical concepts. Novel numerical and statistical modelling approaches are comprehended in reconciling conflicting empirical evidence and assessing degrees of universality. Not being unifying renders the “growth–differentiation-balance theory” falsifiable towards mechanistic consolidation as the grounds of advanced theory building. Mechanistic comprehension of plasticity becomes the key to plant system understanding.
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Publication type
Article: Periodical or book chapter
Editors
Matyssek, R.* ; Schnyder, H.* ; Oßwald, W.* ; Ernst, D.* ; Munch, J.C.* ; Pretzsch, H.*
ISSN (print) / ISBN
0070-8356
ISBN
978-3-642-30644-0
Book Volume Title
Growth and Defence in Plants
Quellenangaben
Volume: 220,
Pages: 433-449
Publisher
Springer
Publishing Place
Berlin ; Heidelberg
Reviewing status
Peer reviewed