Clonal integration enhances flood tolerance of Spartina alterniflora daughter ramets

Aquatic Botany

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 9-13

  Xiao, Yan ^a   Tang, Junbing ^a   Qing, Hua ^a   Ouyang, Yan ^a   Zhao, Yongjun ^a   Zhou, Changfang ^a   An, Shuqing ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Clonal plants; Physiological integration; Severing; Spartina alterniflora; Tidal marsh; Waterlogging

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; BIOMASS; CLONAL GROWTH; CLONAL ORGANISM; COASTAL WETLAND; FLOOD; GRASS; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; RAMET; RHIZOME; SALTMARSH; WATER DEPTH; WATER LEVEL; WATERLOGGING;

SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA;

EID: 70449732158     PISSN: 03043770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aquabot.2009.09.001     Document Type: Article

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