Floodplain and upland populations of Amazonian Himatanthus sucuuba: Effects of flooding on germination, seedling growth and mortality

Environmental and Experimental Botany

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 477-483

  Ferreira, Cristiane S ^a   Piedade, Maria Teresa Fernandez ^a   Junk, Wolfgang J ^b   Parolin, Pia ^b  

^a INPA/Max Planck   (Brazil)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Growth; Population differentiation; Survival; Terra firme; V rzea; Waterlogging

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; FLOODPLAIN; GERMINATION; GROWTH; MORTALITY; SEEDLING; SURVIVAL; WATERLOGGING;

AMAZONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

HIMATANTHUS SUCUUBA;

EID: 34250901519     PISSN: 00988472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envexpbot.2007.01.005     Document Type: Article

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