Does landscape fragmentation influence sex ratio of dioecious plants? a case study of pistacia Chinensis in the Thousand-Island lake region of China

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Yu, Lin ^a   Lu, Jianbo ^b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HANGZHOU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN;

ARTICLE; CHINA; FLOWER; FOREST FRAGMENTATION; FRUIT; LAKE; LANDSCAPE; MICROENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; PISTACHIO; PISTACIA CHINENSIS; POLLEN; SEX RATIO; CHEMISTRY; OVULE; PHYSIOLOGY; PISTACIA; SOIL;

PISTACIA CHINENSIS;

CHINA; NITROGEN; OVULE; PISTACIA; POLLEN; SEX RATIO; SOIL;

EID: 79961161830     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022903     Document Type: Article

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