Abstract:Plants’ environments with reciprocal patchiness of resources, in which the availability of two resources such as light and soil nutrients are patchily distributed in horizontal space and negatively corrected in each patch, are common in many ecosystems. Intraclonal spatial division of labour of Fragaria vesca and Lysimachia christinae with different branching type, growing in the transitional belt between the Qing-zang Plateau and the Sichuan Basin, Southwest China, was investigated in response to the recip...