Adventitious root production and plastic resource allocation to biomass determine burial tolerance in woody plants from central Canadian coastal dunes

Annals of Botany

Volumn 98, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1095-1105

  Dech, Jeffery P ^a,b   Maun, M Anwar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b NIPISSING UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adventitious roots; Allocation patterns; Burial; Coastal dunes; Juniperus virginiana; Picea glauca; Picea mariana; Pinus strobus; Populus balsamifera; Salix cordata; Thuja occidentalis; Woody plants

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADVENTITIOUS ROOT; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; BIOMASS ALLOCATION; COASTAL ZONE; DUNE; PLANT BURIAL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TOLERANCE; WOODY PLANT;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CANADA; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT ROOT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TREE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BIOMASS; CANADA; PLANT ROOTS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TREES;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

JUNIPERUS; JUNIPERUS VIRGINIANA; PICEA GLAUCA; PICEA MARIANA; PINUS STROBUS; POPULUS BALSAMIFERA; SALIX; SALIX CORDATA; THUJA OCCIDENTALIS;

EID: 33750474826     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcl196     Document Type: Article

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