Effects of soil nutrient heterogeneity on intraspecific competition in the invasive, clonal plant Alternanthera philoxeroides

Annals of Botany

Volumn 109, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 813-818

  Zhou, Jian ^a   Dong, Bi Cheng ^a   Alpert, Peter ^b   Li, Hong Li ^a   Zhang, Ming Xiang ^a   Lei, Guang Chun ^a   Yu, Fei Hai ^a  

^a BEIJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Alligator weed; Alternanthera philoxeroides; clonal plant; competition; density effect; intraspecific interaction; log response ratio; resource heterogeneity; spatial heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

CLONAL ORGANISM; DRY MATTER; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GENOTYPE; GROWTH RATE; HETEROGENEITY; HOMOGENEITY; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; INVASIVE SPECIES; PLANT COMMUNITY; SOIL NUTRIENT; WEED;

AMARANTHACEAE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CHINA; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; INTRODUCED SPECIES; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT ROOT; SOIL;

AMARANTHACEAE; CHINA; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; INTRODUCED SPECIES; PLANT ROOTS; PLANT SHOOTS; SOIL;

CHINA;

ALTERNANTHERA PHILOXEROIDES;

EID: 84863229487     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcr314     Document Type: Article

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