Response of biomass allocation to small-scale variation of vegetation coverage in dominant clonal semi-shrubs in the Mu Us Sandland

Acta Ecologica Sinica

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 3415-3419

  Liu, Feng Hong ^a,b   Liu, Jian ^c   Dong, Ming ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Artemisia ordosica; Biomass allocation; Hedysarum laeve; Physiological integration; The Mu Us sandland

Indexed keywords

ARTEMISIA; ARTEMISIA ORDOSICA; HEDYSARUM;

EID: 30744476742     PISSN: 10000933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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