Spatial Niche Facilitates Clonal Reproduction in Seed Plants under Temporal Disturbance
Figure 3
Several patterns of the frequency distribution for reproductive strategies.
The horizontal axis represents the reproductive strategy (P) of an individual plant (0: seed reproduction only, 1: clonal reproduction only), and the vertical axis represents the frequency of each value of P in the plant population. This depends on the degree of environmental change in a habitat and the number of spatial niches. The number of habitats is fixed at k = 16. The values describing the environmental change for each line are: thick solid line corresponds to (p, q) = (0, 0), solid line with open circles corresponds to (p, q) = (0.01, 0.01), solid line with close circles corresponds to (p, q) = (0.01, 0.1), dotted line with open circles corresponds to (p, q) = (0.1, 0.01), and dashed line with close circles corresponds to (p, q) = (0.1, 0.1).