Modelling the morphological response to nutrient availability in the clonal plant Trientalis europaea L.

Plant Ecology

Volumn 141, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 117-127

  Piqueras, Jesús ^a   Klimeš, Leoš ^b   Redbo Torstensson, Peter ^c  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

^c SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Nitrogen; Pseudoannual; Spatially explicit simulation model; Tuber

Indexed keywords

CLONE; ENVIRONMENT; MORPHOLOGICAL ADAPTATION; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PLANT GROWTH; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RAMET; SIMULATION MODEL; SIZE; SURVIVAL;

CLONAL ORGANISM; MODELING; MORPHOLOGY; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY;

TRIENTALIS EUROPAEA;

EID: 0032793637     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1009845014687     Document Type: Article

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