Causes and consequences of sectoriality in the clonal herb Glechoma hederacea

Vegetatio

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 41-54

  Price, Elizabeth A C ^a   Hutchings, Michael J ^b   Marshall, Christopher ^c  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Competition; Defoliation; Morphological plasticity; Physiological integration; Phytotoxic ions; Ramet population dynamics

Indexed keywords

GLECHOMA HEDERACEA;

EID: 0030457258     PISSN: 00423106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00054846     Document Type: Conference Paper

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