Table 1.

Mean root/shoot ratios of whole clones and parts of clones of Glechoma hederacea when grown under homogeneous and heterogeneous conditions providing the same total nutrient supply

	Homogeneous	Heterogeneous
Parts within central circle	0·65a	0·07c
Parts outside central circle	0·03d	0·08c
Whole clone	0·15b	0·08c

The nutrient concentration in the heterogeneous treatment was higher within the central circle, and lower outside the central circle, than in equivalent areas in the homogeneous treatment. See text, and Birch and Hutchings (1994) for further details of treatments.

Means with different letters are significantly different (P < 0.05).