Responses of a carnivorous plant to prey and inorganic nutrients in a Mediterranean environment

Oecologia

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 443-451

  Zamora, Regino ^a   Gómez, José M ^a   Hódar, José A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fertilizing; Fitness responses; Mediterranean carnivorous plants; Pinguicula vallisneriifolia; Prey dependence

Indexed keywords

CARNIVOROUS PLANT; FERTILIZATION; GROWTH; MUCILAGE SECRETION; PREY; REPRODUCTION; SURVIVAL;

SPAIN;

LENTIBULARIACEAE; PINGUICULA VALLISNERIIFOLIA;

EID: 1842330327     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420050257     Document Type: Article

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