Theoretical approaches on the growth strategy of plants in unpredictable environments

Abstract

I showed two models for growth strategies of plants growing unpredictable environments. In the first model, I analyzed the evolutionarily stable sapling growth waiting for future gap formation under closed canopy. In the second model, I analyzed the optimal resource allocation strategies to ramets(daughter plants), rhizomes(or other horizontal stems, such as stolons)and seeds for plants growing in a spatially varying environment.