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Assessing the clonal expansion strategy of landscape-forming plants
Valerie Reijers
Radboud University
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Vegetated coastal landscapes are often formed by clonally expanding plants. By developing rhizomes or stolons these plants can spread laterally and distribute themselves in space. In this protocol we describe a method for deriving the clonal expanding strategy of dune grasses from still images. First we will discuss a more labour intensive method that requires the excavation and reconstruction of a clonal network. Second, we will discuss a validated automated approach based on two connecting algorithms that allows for a less time-consuming expansion of a dataset.
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dune grass, clonal expansion strategy, network analyses, Ammophila, spatial organization, Traveling Salesman, Nearest Neighbour search
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A Lévy expansion strategy optimizes early dune building by beach grasses
by Valérie C. Reijers, Koen Siteur, Selwyn Hoeks, +8
Nature Communications (14 June, 2019)
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Method Article
Assessing the clonal expansion strategy of landscape-forming plants
Valerie Reijers
Radboud University
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ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7781-5019
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Vegetated coastal landscapes are often formed by clonally expanding plants. By developing rhizomes or stolons these plants can spread laterally and distribute themselves in space. In this protocol we describe a method for deriving the clonal expanding strategy of dune grasses from still images. First we will discuss a more labour intensive method that requires the excavation and reconstruction of a clonal network. Second, we will discuss a validated automated approach based on two connecting algorithms that allows for a less time-consuming expansion of a dataset.
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A Lévy expansion strategy optimizes early dune building by beach grasses
by Valérie C. Reijers, Koen Siteur, Selwyn Hoeks, +8
Nature Communications (14 June, 2019)