Would you like to see a pseudoannual plant Trientalis europaea, as modelled using CLONE, a spatially explicit model simulating behaviour of clonal plants in two-dimensional space?

Click on the plant below to see ten virtual plants (its hibernacles from above) growing in heterogeneous environment (grey is "bad" and violet is "good") over 33 years (discrete steps). Living ramets are dark blue, dead ramets are denoted by empty circles. Ramet (hibernacle) size corresponds to the size of the circle. The model was calibrated by data from an experiment (for details see Piqueras J., Klimes L. & Redbo-Torstensson P. 1999. Modelling the morphological response to nutrient availability in the clonal plant Trientalis europaea L. Plant Ecology 141: 117-127).

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