Assign the morphological types to the corresponding drawings (by dragging and dropping the text boxes on the plants).
1 - Morphological types
In clonal plants, rapid increases in size are possible and this enhances later survival and also the reproductive potential by seeds.
Movement is possible, which means that bad environments can be left for better ones.
Space can be occupied by horizontal growth and heterogeneously distributed resources (water, nutrients) can be captured to the disadvantage of potential competitors.
Structurally integrated clonal plants are able to transport resources to support part of a clone that suffers from stress, poor resources or losses due to herbivores or pathogens.
Because mother plants support young ramets, they have much lower mortality than young seedlings.
Competitors can be invaded and displaced; clonal growth is the most efficient way of an established population to persist.
The mortality risk of a genetic individual is low, successful individuals are able to rapidly increase in numbers.
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