Spatial Niche Facilitates Clonal Reproduction in Seed Plants under Temporal Disturbance
Figure 5
The frequency distributions of reproductive strategies in both the spatial niche and the neutral cases.
The frequency of environmental change is fixed at q = 0.1. The left side panels (a–c) represent the spatial niche case and the right side panels (d–f) represent the neutral case. The three layers of panels represent the different magnitudes of change: p = 0.1 in the top panels (a, d), p = 0.01 in the middle panels (b, e), and p = 0 in the bottom panels (c, f). Within each panel, habitat heterogeneity is indicated: k = 25 for the upper boxplot and k = 4 for the lower boxplot. White boxplots represent the spatial niche case and the grey boxplots represent the neutral case.