Spatial Niche Facilitates Clonal Reproduction in Seed Plants under Temporal Disturbance
Figure 4
The changes in reproductive strategies in response to environmental change, comparing the spatial niche and neutral cases.
The spatial heterogeneity is fixed at k = 16, and the white boxplot represent the spatial niche case and the grey boxplots represent the neutral case. Panel (a) represents the case in which frequency of environmental change is high, i.e., p = 0.1, and panel (b) represents the case of low frequency of environmental change (p = 0.01). Within each panel, the difference of the magnitude of environmental change is illustrated: q = 0.1 at the top, q = 0.01 in the middle, and q = 0 at the bottom. When q = 0, it is identical to p = 0, because it means there is no environmental change.