Ecological benefits of integration of Calamagrostis epigejos ramets under field conditions

Flora: Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants

Volumn 201, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 461-467

  Březina, Stanislav ^a   Koubek, Tomáš ^b   Münzbergová, Zuzana ^a,b   Herben, Tomáš ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Allocation; Clonal plants; Intra specific variation; Physiological integration; Rhizome connection; Severing

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; CLONAL ORGANISM; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; GRASS; PERENNIAL PLANT; RAMET; STEM; VEGETATION;

CALAMAGROSTIS; CALAMAGROSTIS EPIGEIOS;

EID: 33747774528     PISSN: 03672530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.flora.2005.10.003     Document Type: Article

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