Nitrogen addition and rhizome severing modify clonal growth and reproductive modes of Leymus chinensis population

Plant Ecology

Volumn 205, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 13-21

  Bai, Wenming ^a   Sun, Xiaoqin ^a,b   Wang, Zhengwen ^a   Li, Linghao ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Clonal growth; Leymus chinensis; Ramet; Rhizome; Sexual reproduction

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CLONAL GROWTH; CLONAL ORGANISM; GRASS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; RHIZOME; SEXUAL REPRODUCTION; VEGETATIVE PROPAGATION;

LEYMUS CHINENSIS;

EID: 70350176132     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-009-9595-2     Document Type: Article

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