Experimental ramet aggregation in the clonal plant Agrostis stolonifera reduces its competitive ability

Ecology

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1358-1365

  Lenssen, John P M ^a   Hershock, Chad ^b   Speek, Tanja ^a   During, Heinjo J ^c   De Kroon, Hans ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c FAFC Went Building ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Competition colonization trade off; Disturbance; Flooding; Phenotypic manipulation; Spatial pattern

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVE ABILITY; DISPERSAL; DISTURBANCE; FLOODING; RAMET;

AGROSTIS; AGROSTIS STOLONIFERA; ALOPECURUS; ALOPECURUS PRATENSIS;

EID: 18444375605     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/04-0939     Document Type: Article

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