The Conceptual Framework for Plasticity Strategies

the value of creating dichotomies in the ways organisms (plants or animals) are viewed. Therefore, in this present review, I will avoid previously cited literature and discussion, and will present an integrated but eclectic update of some of these investigations, especially those that deal with whole-organism signaling in plants and sessile colonial animals. Furthermore, I will present these results within the framework of evolutionary ecology, since an understanding of plasticity and of an unchanging phenotype can only be relevant within an ecological and evolutionary context.