Morphological variation of two taxonomically distant plant species along a natural flow velocity gradient

New Phytologist

Volumn 163, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 651-660

  Puijalon, Sara ^a   Bornette, Gudrun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Flow velocity gradient; Mechanical stress; Morphological plasticity; Phenotypic variation; Submerged plant

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FLOW VELOCITY; MORPHOLOGY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY;

BERULA ERECTA; MENTHA; MENTHA AQUATICA;

EID: 4143074817     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2004.01135.x     Document Type: Article

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