Clonal splitting in desert shrubs

Plant Ecology

Volumn 141, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 41-52

  Schenk, H Jochen ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Axis splitting; Clonal fragmentation; Hydraulic segmentation; Integrated hydraulic units; Ramet competition; Risk spreading

Indexed keywords

CLONAL ORGANISM; DESERT; GROWTH FORM; RAMET; SEGMENTATION; SHRUB;

EID: 0032811660     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1009895603783     Document Type: Article

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