Responses to severe competitive stress in a clonal plant: Differences between genotypes

Oikos

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 581-591

  Cheplick, Gregory P ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBROMUS SCABRIVALVIS; LOLIUM PERENNE; POACEAE;

CLONAL PLANT; COMPETITIVE STRESS; GENOTYPE; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION;

EID: 0030617630     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3546902     Document Type: Article

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