Controls of fine root dynamics across a gradient of gap sizes in a pine woodland

Oecologia

Volumn 134, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 132-143

  Jones, Robert H ^a   Mitchell, Robert J ^b   Stevens, Glen N ^a   Pecot, Stephen D ^b  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOSEPH W JONES ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Compensatory growth; Ingrowth core; Minirhizotron; Mixed life form; Pinus palustris

Indexed keywords

WATER;

CANOPY GAP; FINE ROOT; GROWTH; WOODLAND;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PINE; PLANT ROOT; POPULATION DENSITY; SEASON; SOIL; TREE;

BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; PINUS; PLANT ROOTS; POPULATION DENSITY; SEASONS; SOIL; TREES; WATER;

PINUS PALUSTRIS;

EID: 0346037175     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-002-1098-y     Document Type: Article

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