Variation in vegetative and flowering phenology in a forest herb caused by environmental heterogeneity

American Journal of Botany

Volumn 94, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1570-1576

  Dahlgren, Johan P ^a   Von Zeipel, Hugo ^a   Ehrlén, Johan ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Actaea spicata; Flowering time; Forest herb; Microenvironment; Potassium; Ranunculaceae; Shoot emergence; Structural equation model; Within population

Indexed keywords

CANOPY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DICOTYLEDON; FITNESS; GLOBAL WARMING; HERB; HETEROGENEITY; PHENOLOGY; POTASSIUM; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SOIL TEMPERATURE;

ACTAEA (ANGIOSPERM); ACTAEA SPICATA; RANUNCULACEAE;

EID: 34548639651     PISSN: 00029122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3732/ajb.94.9.1570     Document Type: Article

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