Dandelion Seed Dispersal: The Horizontal Wind Speed Does Not Matter for Long-Distance Dispersal - It is Updraft!

Plant Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 451-454

  Tackenberg, O ^a   Poschlod, P ^a   Kahmen, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Seed dispersal; Taraxacum officinale; Terminal velocity; Wind dispersal

Indexed keywords

SEED DISPERSAL; UPDRAFT; ZOOCHORY;

TARAXACUM; TARAXACUM OFFICINALE;

EID: 0345581692     PISSN: 14358603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2003-44789     Document Type: Article

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