Phenotypic plasticity in response to soil moisture availability in the clonal plant eremosparton songoricum (Litv.) Vass

Journal of Arid Land

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 34-39

  Wang, Jiancheng ^a,b,c   Shi, Xiang ^d   Zhang, Daoyuan ^a,b   Yin, Linke ^a,b  

^a XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d SHIHEZI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Eremosparton songoricum; Moisture availability; Phenotypic plasticity; Sand dune

Indexed keywords

EREMOSPARTON;

EID: 84860730740     PISSN: 16746767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1227.2011.00034     Document Type: Article

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