This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract 1. We hypothesize that flowering phenology correlates with plant height growth pattern and that the pattern is associated with functional ...

Life is rife with patterns. It's common for living things to create a repeating series of similar features as they grow: think of feathers that vary slightly in length on a bird's wing or shorter and ...

Abstract: Mollusks show a diversity of shell growth patterns. We develop a model for the dynamic resource allocation to defense organs and analyze it with the Pontryagin maximum principle. A typical ...