Abstract

Growth forms are considered from two viewpoints: a descriptive and a functional one. Mono-character growth forms and their biological spectra were used to test whether they can characterize certain underlying processes in Quercus ilex coppice in southern France. Correspondence analysis of 35 mono-character growth forms of 203 described taxa shows that location of renewal buds is a good integrating indicator of plant adaptations to the environment. Two of these characters (renewal bud location, i.e. Raunkiaer's main life forms, and leaf consistency) appear to vary significantly along a gradient of increasing environmental constraints, especially climatic ones.

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