Morphological responses of Leymus chinensis (Poaceae) to the large-scale climatic gradient along the North-east China Transect (NECT)

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 65-73

  Wang, Renzhong ^a,b   Gao, Qiong ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Large scale climatic gradient; Leaf length and width; Leymus chinensis; Plant height; Seed number; The North east China Transect

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; LEAF MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

LEYMUS; LEYMUS CHINENSIS; POACEAE;

EID: 2342597224     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2004.00056.x     Document Type: Article

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