Upwind movement of achenes of Centaurea eriophora L. on the ground

Annals of Botany

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 431-436

  Witztum, Allan ^a   Schulgasser, Kalman ^a   Vogel, Steven ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

achenes; Centaurea eriophora; seeds; Wind dispersal

Indexed keywords

CENTAUREA; CENTAUREA ERIOPHORA; ERIOPHORA; FORMICIDAE; ASTERACEAE;

SEED DISPERSAL; WIND DISPERSAL;

EID: 0029659437     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbo.1996.0139     Document Type: Article

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