The effect of environmental heterogeneity on clonal behaviour of Prunella vulgaris L.

Plant Ecology

Volumn 168, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 31-43

  Macek, Petr ^a   Lepš, Jan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF ENTOMOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Circular statistics; Clonal growth; Competition for light; Foraging; Morphological plasticity; R FR ratio

Indexed keywords

CANOPY GAP; CLONAL GROWTH; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); HERB; HETEROGENEITY; LIGHT INTENSITY; LIGHT QUALITY;

JUNCUS; JUNCUS EFFUSUS; MOLINIA; MOLINIA CAERULEA; NARDUS STRICTA; PRUNELLA VULGARIS;

EID: 0043166661     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024460525317     Document Type: Article

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