Seedling stage strategies as a means of habitat specialization in herbaceous plants

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  ten Brink, Dirk Jan ^a,c   Bruun, Hans Henrik ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c Golder Associates Perú   (Peru)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HERBACEOUS AGENT; WATER;

ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; DROUGHT STRESS; FOREST; GERMINATION; GROWTH RATE; HABITAT; INTERNODE ELONGATION; LEAF MORPHOLOGY; MEDICINAL PLANT; NONHUMAN; PETIOLE; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT HEIGHT; PLANT LEAF; SEEDLING; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIGHT; PLANT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

DROUGHTS; ECOSYSTEM; LIGHT; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEEDLING; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE; WATER;

EID: 79960916300     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023006     Document Type: Article

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