Nutrient dynamics of the highly productive C4 macrophyte Echinochloa polystachya on the Amazon floodplain

Functional Ecology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 60-65

  Piedade, M T F ^a   Junk, W J ^b   Long, S P ^c  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Nitrogen; phosphorus; plant mineral nutrition; potassium

Indexed keywords

ECHINOCHLOA POLYSTACHYA; POACEAE;

AQUATIC MACROPHYTE; FLOODPLAIN; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS;

BRAZIL, AMAZONIA; SOUTH AMERICA, AMAZONIA;

EID: 0030618945     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2435.1997.00066.x     Document Type: Article

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