The effects of spatial scale of environmental heterogeneity on the growth of a clonal plant: An experimental study with Glechoma hederacea

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 17-28

  Wijesinghe, Dushyantha K ^a   Hutchings, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

foraging; grain response; nutrient patchiness; physiological integration

Indexed keywords

GLECHOMA HEDERACEA; LAMIACEAE;

CLONAL PLANT; ENVIRONMENTAL HETEROGENEITY; GROUND IVY; SCALE;

EID: 0030617798     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2960624     Document Type: Article

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