Adaptations for an amphibious life: Changes in leaf morphology, growth rate, carbon and nitrogen investment, and reproduction during adjustment to emersion by the freshwater macrophyte Littorella uniflora

New Phytologist

Volumn 140, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 9-23

  Robe, W E ^a   Griffiths, H ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aquatic macrophyte; Emersion; Heterophylly; Littorella uniflora (L.) Ascherson (Shoreweed); Seasonal growth

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC PLANT; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; GROWTH; MORPHOLOGY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION;

LITTORELLA UNIFLORA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 0031741065     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-8137.1998.00257.x     Document Type: Article

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