Morphological and physiological responses to burial depth and sediment type in the wetland macrophyte Miscanthus sacchariflorus

Fundamental and Applied Limnology

Volumn 180, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 271-277

  Pan, Ying ^a,b   Xie, Yonghong ^a   Li, Feng ^a   Pan, Baihan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Biomass allocation; Miscanthus sacchariflorus; Nutrient; Root morphology; Sedimentation

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS ALLOCATION; BURIAL (GEOLOGY); GROWTH RATE; MACROPHYTE; MORPHOLOGY; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; ROOT ARCHITECTURE; WETLAND;

MISCANTHUS SACCHARIFLORUS;

EID: 84876012165     PISSN: 18639135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/1863-9135/2012/0266     Document Type: Article

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