Types of plant strategies: The place in systems of species classificationsand tendencies of development

According to any parameter reflecting reproductive biology or relationships between a plant and environment, the species form continuum that is reduce d to the discrete types because of pragmatic reasons. Continuum of species strategy (behavior) reflects their relationships to the level of resource s upply, biotic factors and disturbances. The authors discuss the system of s trategy types of Ramensky - Grime, its modern state, critique and developme nt, particularly - investigations of physiological mechanisms of adaptation s. These adaptations are submitted to the V.N. Novoseltsev's principle of b iological epimorphism: different species adapts to the same environmental f actor using different sets of physiological modes. The greater number of su ch modes, the more successfully species can get over environment resistance .