Fertilization and allelopathy modify Pinus halepensis saplings crown acclimation to shade

Trees - Structure and Function

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 497-507

  Monnier, Yogan ^a,b   Vila, Bruno ^a   Montès, Nicolas ^a   Bousquet Mélou, Anne ^a   Prévosto, Bernard ^b   Fernandez, Catherine ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b UR EMAX   (France)

Author keywords

Allelopathy; Crown plasticity; Fertilization; Growth; Light; Shade avoidance

Indexed keywords

ALLELOPATHY; CROWN PLASTICITY; FERTILIZATION; GROWTH; SHADE AVOIDANCE;

EXPERIMENTS; PLASTICITY;

FORESTRY;

EXPERIMENTATION; FERTILIZATION; FORESTRY; GROWTH; LIGHT; PLASTICITY;

PINUS HALEPENSIS;

EID: 79956203689     PISSN: 09311890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00468-010-0525-7     Document Type: Article

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