Shallow-soil endemics: Adaptive advantages and constraints of a specialized root-system morphology

New Phytologist

Volumn 178, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 371-381

  Poot, Pieter ^a,b   Lambers, Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Commonness; Ironstone; Rarity; Root placement; Root system morphology; Shallow soil endemics; Specialization; Trade offs

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; DICOTYLEDON; ECOMORPHOLOGY; ENDEMIC SPECIES; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; ROOT SYSTEM; SHALLOW SOIL; SPECIALIZATION; SURVIVAL; TRADE-OFF;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT ROOT; PROTEACEAE; SEEDLING; SOIL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; PLANT ROOTS; PLANT SHOOTS; PROTEACEAE; SEEDLING; SOIL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

HAKEA; PROTEACEAE;

EID: 41149101864     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2007.02370.x     Document Type: Article

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