Genetic identity affects performance of species in grasslands of different plant diversity: An experiment with Lolium perenne cultivars

Annals of Botany

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 113-125

  Roscher, Christiane ^a,b   Schumacher, Jens ^a,b   Weisser, Wolfgang W ^a   Schulze, Ernst Detlef ^b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Competition; Genetic variation; Growth reduction; Lolium perenne; Phenotypic plasticity; Species richness

Indexed keywords

CULTIVAR; GENETIC VARIATION; GRASS; GRASSLAND; GROWTH RESPONSE; HETEROGENEITY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION SIZE; SEED PRODUCTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LOLIUM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; LOLIUM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

LOLIUM PERENNE;

EID: 45949108395     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcn070     Document Type: Article

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