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Thymus baicalensis shoot formation and life-form diversity have been studied under the different environmental conditions of Ol’khon Island. It has been determined that a species life form represents a vegetative immovable aerial–axial dwarf shrub under mountain-steppe–hilltop conditions, while on the hill slope it is a vegetative immovable dwarf shrub of an elfin–wood–formation type; it tends to be cushionshaped in sandy steppes. The basis of a mature specimen can be formed by a monopodial and sympodial main axis increasing in increments. Changes in skeletal axis structures, length of time for their increase in increments, species-specific rooting characteristics, and spatial configuration can be the mechanisms of morphological adaptation to different ecological and coenotic conditions.
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Original Russian Text © E.B. Talovskaya (Kolegova), 2015, published in Sibirskii Ekologicheskii Zhurnal, 2015, No. 5, pp. 735–742.
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Talovskaya (Kolegova), E.B. Thymus baicalensis (Lamiaceae) morphological transformation under different environmental conditions. Contemp. Probl. Ecol. 8, 607–613 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1995425515050133
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