Seedlings of the semi-shrub Artemisia ordosica are resistant to moderate wind denudation and sand burial in Mu Us sandland, China

Trees - Structure and Function

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 515-521

  Li, Shou Li ^a,b,d   Werger, Marinus J A ^b   Zuidema, Pieter A ^b   Yu, Fei Hai ^a,c   Dong, Ming ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c BEIJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Artemisia ordosica; Dunes; Sand burial; Sand denudartion; Seedling size; Shrub

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RESPONSE; ARTEMISIA ORDOSICA; DUNES; FIELD EXPERIMENT; LEAF AREA; SANDLANDS; SEEDLING GROWTH; SEEDLING SIZE; SEEDLING SURVIVAL; SHRUB SPECIES; STEPPE VEGETATION;

ECOLOGY; PLANTS (BOTANY); SAND; SEED;

FORESTRY;

ARTEMISIA; ARTEMISIA ORDOSICA;

EID: 77952429218     PISSN: 09311890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00468-010-0422-0     Document Type: Article

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