Resource translocation within seagrass clones: Allometric scaling to plant size and productivity

Oecologia

Volumn 150, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 362-372

  Marbà, Núria ^a,b   Hemminga, Marten A ^a,c   Duarte, Carlos M ^b  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^c Stichting Het Zeeuwse Landschap   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Carbon; Growth; Isotopes; Nitrogen

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM CHLORIDE; BICARBONATE; CARBON; NITROGEN;

ALLOMETRY; CARBON; CLONE; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; PRODUCTIVITY; SEAGRASS; TRANSLOCATION;

ALISMATIDAE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; KENYA; METABOLISM; NETHERLANDS; PLANT; SPAIN; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ALISMATIDAE; AMMONIUM CHLORIDE; CARBON ISOTOPES; KENYA; NETHERLANDS; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; PLANT SHOOTS; SODIUM BICARBONATE; SPAIN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

CYMODOCEA NODOSA; CYMODOCEA SERRULATA; HALODULE UNINERVIS; HALOPHILA STIPULACEA; POSIDONIA OCEANICA; THALASSIA HEMPRICHII; THALASSODENDRON CILIATUM; ZOSTERA NOLTII;

EID: 33750990476     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-006-0524-y     Document Type: Article

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