Shoot Growth Dynamics and Size-dependent Shoot Fate of a Clonal Plant, Festuca rubra, in a Mountain Grassland

Researches on Population Ecology

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 83-93

  Hara, Toshihiko ^a   Herben, Tomáš ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Daughter shoot formation; Diffusion model; Flowering; Shoot demography; Shoot survival; Stability of shoot population

Indexed keywords

FESTUCA RUBRA;

EID: 0005795849     PISSN: 00345466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02765253     Document Type: Article

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