Experimental evaluation of seed limitation in alpine snowbed plants

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Dullinger, Stefan ^a,b   Hülber, Karl ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Vienna Inst for Nature Conservation and Analyses   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHILLEA ATRATA; ACHILLEA CLUSIANA; ARABIS CAERULEA; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOWERING; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); GERMINATION; GNAPHALIUM HOPPEANUM; GROWTH RATE; HIGHER PLANT; NONHUMAN; PLANT COMMUNITY; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT SEED; POPULATION GROWTH; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEED PRODUCTION; SEEDLING; SEEDLING EMERGENCE; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

ACHILLEA ATRATA; ACHILLEA CLUSIANA; ARABIS; GNAPHALIUM;

CLIMATE CHANGE; PLANTS; SEEDS;

EID: 79959637016     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021537     Document Type: Article

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