Soil Particle Heterogeneity Affects the Growth of a Rhizomatous Wetland Plant

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Huang, Lin ^a   Dong, Bi Cheng ^a   Xue, Wei ^a   Peng, Yi Ke ^a   Zhang, Ming Xiang ^a   Yu, Fei Hai ^a  

^a BEIJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; BOLBOSCHOENUS PLANICULMIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GREENHOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PARTICLE SIZE; PLANT; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT TUBER; RAMET; ROOT LENGTH; SOIL TREATMENT; SPATIAL SOIL VARIABILITY;

PARTICLE SIZE; RHIZOME; SOIL; WETLANDS;

EID: 84880846076     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0069836     Document Type: Article

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