Shade avoidance in the clonal herb Trifolium fragiferum: A field study with experimentally manipulated vegetation height

Plant Ecology

Volumn 130, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 53-62

  Huber, Heidrun ^a   Wiggerman, Lars ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biomass allocation; Clonal growth; Environmental heterogeneity; Light availability; Plasticity; Trade off

Indexed keywords

TRIFOLIUM FRAGIFERUM; FABACEAE;

CLONAL PLANT; RAMET; SHADE AVOIDANCE; STRAWBERRY CLOVER; TRADE-OFF;

EID: 0030618908     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009702611270     Document Type: Article

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