Resource Allocation in Plants

Theoretical Ecology: BIOL765
Department of Biological Sciences
University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, 29208
September 22, 1998

Readings:

Mooney, H. A. and Gulmon, S. L. 1979. Environmental and evolutionary constraints on the photosynthetic characteristics of higher plants. In: Topics in Plant Population Biology. (Solbrig, OT, Jain, S, Johnson, G. B. and Raven P. H., eds). Columbia Univ Press

Gleeson, S. K. and Tilman, D. 1992. Plant allocation and the multiple limitation hypothesis. American Naturalist 139: 1322-1343.

Read for background if you want:

Bloom, A. J., Chapin, F. S. and Mooney, H. A. 1985. Resource limitation in plnatns - an economic analogy. Ann. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 16: 363-392.