Consequences of ramets helping ramets: No damage and increased nutrient use efficiency in nurse ramets of Glechoma longituba

Flora: Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants

Volumn 204, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 182-188

  Zhang, Li Li ^a   He, Wei Ming ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

Author keywords

Chlorophyll fluorescence; Growth and allocation; Midday leaf water potential; Nutrient use efficiency; Patch contrast; Photosynthesis

Indexed keywords

BELOWGROUND BIOMASS; CHLOROPHYLL; CLONAL ORGANISM; GROWTH RATE; HERB; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; NUTRIENT USE EFFICIENCY; PHOSPHORUS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RAMET; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS;

GLECHOMA LONGITUBA;

EID: 61349152339     PISSN: 03672530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.flora.2008.02.001     Document Type: Article

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