Flooding effects on rapid responses of the invasive plant Alternanthera philoxeroides to defoliation

Flora: Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants

Volumn 205, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 449-453

  Yu, Lingfei ^a   Yu, Dan ^a   Liu, Chunhua ^a   Xie, Dong ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Alternanthera philoxeroides; Biomass; Compensatory growth; Defoliation; Flooding; Invasive plant

Indexed keywords

DEFOLIATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOODING; INVASIVE SPECIES; PHYTOMASS; ROOT-SHOOT RATIO; SUBMERGED VEGETATION;

ALTERNANTHERA PHILOXEROIDES;

EID: 77955920751     PISSN: 03672530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.flora.2009.12.016     Document Type: Article

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