On the ecological and evolutionary significance of storage in clonal plants

Plant Species Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 11-17

  Suzuki, Jun Ichirou ^a,b   Stuefer, Josef F ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Heterogeneity; Plant strategies; Rhizomes; Stolons; Temporal spatial heterogeneity; Tubers

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032994034     PISSN: 0913557X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1442-1984.1999.00002.x     Document Type: Article

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