Response of seedling root of six herbaceous species to light and nutrient in alpine meadow of Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

International Journal of Botany

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 395-401

  Wu, Gaolin ^a   Du, Guozhen ^a   Chen, Min ^a   Sun, Dashuai ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Alpine meadow; Biomass allocation; Light; Nutrient; Root

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845493497     PISSN: 18119700     EISSN: 18119719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3923/ijb.2006.395.401     Document Type: Article

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