Marked differences in survivorship among apple roots of different diameters

Ecology

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 882-892

  Wells, Christina E ^a   Eissenstat, David M ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Apple roots; Fine roots; Malus; Minirhizotron; Root demography; Root diameter; Root life span; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

DIAMETER; FINE ROOT; SURVIVORSHIP;

MALUS; MALUS DOMESTICA; MALUS X DOMESTICA;

EID: 0035108434     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2001)082[0882:MDISAA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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