Roles of cottony hairs in directed seed dispersal in riparian willows

Plant Ecology

Volumn 198, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 27-35

  Seiwa, Kenji ^a   Tozawa, Munetaka ^a   Ueno, Naoto ^a   Kimura, Megumi ^a   Yamasaki, Miki ^a   Maruyama, Kaoru ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anemochory; Buoyancy; Diplochory; Floating ability; Hydrochory; Salix

Indexed keywords

ANEMOCHORY; BUOYANCY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECIDUOUS TREE; FIELD METHOD; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GERMINATION; HAIR; HYDROCHORY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SEED DISPERSAL; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT;

SALIX; SALIX INTEGRA; SALIX SACHALINENSIS;

EID: 48449101002     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-007-9382-x     Document Type: Article

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