Effects of nutrient amendments on modular growth, flowering effort and reproduction of snowbed plants

Plant Ecology and Diversity

Volumn 6, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 475-486

  Petraglia, Alessandro ^a   Carbognani, Michele ^a   Tomaselli, Marcello ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

alpine tundra; Cardamine alpina; climate change; clonal growth; Leucanthemopsis alpina; nitrogen; phosphorus; Poa alpina; seedling; Veronica alpina

Indexed keywords

CARDAMINE; GAVIA; LEUCANTHEMOPSIS ALPINA; POA; POA ALPINA; VERONICA; VERONICA ALPINA;

EID: 84885031348     PISSN: 17550874     EISSN: 17551668     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17550874.2013.795628     Document Type: Article

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