Optimal allocation strategies of perennial plants

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Mironchenko, Andrii ; Kozłowski, Jan:
Optimal allocation strategies of perennial plants.
In: 2013 IEEE 52nd Annual Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2013) : Proceedings. - Piscataway, NJ, USA : IEEE , 2013 . - S. 3361-3366
ISBN 978-1-4673-5714-2
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/CDC.2013.6760397

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Abstract

In this paper we propose a novel optimal allocation model for perennial plants. We consider not only favorable for photosynthesis periods, but analyze the whole life of a perennial plant. This provides more information about strategies of a plant during transitions between favorable and unfavorable seasons. One of predictions of our model is that a plant can begin re-establishment of vegetative tissues some time before the beginning of the favorable conditions, so as to come into the better environmental conditions with a certain amount of already developed vegetative tissues.

In the second part of the paper we extend the model by assuming that a plant controls not only a distribution of carbohydrates, but also a size of a seed. We provide sufficient conditions under which the optimal strategy for a plant is to produce as much seeds as possible. These results can be applied, in particular, for colonizing species and plants living in open environments.