Testing the growth rate hypothesis in vascular plants with above- and below-ground biomass

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Yu, Qiang ^a,b   Wu, Honghui ^a,b   He, Nianpeng ^c   Lü, Xiaotao ^a,b   Wang, Zhiping ^b   Elser, James J ^d   Wu, Jianguo ^d,e   Han, Xingguo ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ECOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^d ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e INNER MONGOLIA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GROWTH RATE; NONHUMAN; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT NUTRIENT; RHIZOME; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STOICHIOMETRY; VASCULAR PLANT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PLANT;

TRACHEOPHYTA;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOMASS; CARBON; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; PLANTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84863274373     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032162     Document Type: Article

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