Are clonal plants more frequent in cold environments than elsewhere?

Plant Ecology and Diversity

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 373-378

  Klimešová, Jitka ^a   Doležal, Jiří ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

alpine floras; arctic floras; clonal growth forms; foraging for nutrients; reproductive insurance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864723741     PISSN: 17550874     EISSN: 17551668     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17550874.2011.586734     Document Type: Article

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