The relationship between silicon availability, and growth and silicon concentration of the salt marsh halophyte Spartina anglica

Plant and Soil

Volumn 215, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 19-27

  De Bakker, N V J ^a,b   Hemminga, M A ^a   Van Soelen, J ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Growth; Porewater; Salt marshes; Silicon; Spartina; Tissue concentrations

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; NETHERLANDS; PLANT CELL CULTURE; PLANT GROWTH; SEDIMENT; SILICIC ACID; SILICON; SOLUTE CONCENTRATION;

GROWTH; HALOPHYTE; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; SALTMARSH; SILICON;

NETHERLANDS;

SPARTINA ANGLICA;

EID: 0033393320     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1004751902074     Document Type: Article

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