Above- and belowground competition between two submersed macrophytes

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 607, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 113-122

  Wang, Jin Wang ^a,b   Yu, Dan ^a   Xiong, Wen ^a   Han, Yu Qin ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Zhejiang Institute of Subtropical Crops   (China)

Author keywords

Aboveground competition; Belowground competition; Biomass accumulation and partitioning; Hydrilla verticillata; Macrophyte; Myriophyllum spicatum

Indexed keywords

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOMASS; GROWTH KINETICS;

ABOVEGROUND COMPETITION; BIOMASS ACCUMULATION AND PARTITIONING; HYDRILLA VERTICILLATA; MYRIOPHYLLUM SPICATUM;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; AQUATIC PLANT; BELOWGROUND BIOMASS; BIOMASS ALLOCATION; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; MACROPHYTE; ROOT-SHOOT RATIO;

HYDRILLA VERTICILLATA; MYRIOPHYLLUM SPICATUM;

EID: 44249089041     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-008-9371-7     Document Type: Article

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