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.