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Five types of life history are distinguished among herbaceous species growing in steppe grasslands in Kazakhstan: they include tussock plants, tap-rooted plants of various kinds and long-rhizome herbs. They vary in the structure and dynamics of their coenopopulations and in the extent to which they are maintained in coenoses by seed or by vegetative growth. An understanding of the morphology and ontogenetic development of plants in natural coenoses is an indispensible prerequisite for describing their coenopopulation characteristics. These in turn reveal how plant communities are organised as dynamic systems.
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Vorontzova, L.I., Zaugolnova, L.B. (1985). Population Biology of Steppe Plants. In: White, J. (eds) The Population Structure of Vegetation. Handbook of Vegetation Science, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5500-4_7
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