Water integration patterns in two rhizomatous dune perennials of different clonal fragment size

Flora: Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants

Volumn 202, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 106-110

  Liu, Feng Hong ^a,b   Liu, Jian ^a,c   Yu, Fei Hai ^a   Dong, Ming ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Clonal fragment; Clonal integration; Hedysarum laeve; Heterogeneity; Psammochloa villosa

Indexed keywords

CLONAL ORGANISM; DUNE; EXPLOITATION; FIELD METHOD; HETEROGENEITY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MICROHABITAT; PERENNIAL PLANT; RAMET; RHIZOME; TRANSLOCATION; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER UPTAKE; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

HEDYSARUM LAEVE; PSAMMOCHLOA VILLOSA;

EID: 33846983595     PISSN: 03672530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.flora.2006.05.004     Document Type: Article

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