Low investment in sexual reproduction threatens plants adapted to phosphorus limitation

Nature

Volumn 505, Issue 7481, 2014, Pages 82-86

  Fujita, Yuki ^a   Venterink, Harry Olde ^b   Van Bodegom, Peter M ^c   Douma, Jacob C ^d   Heil, Gerrit W ^e   Hölzel, Norbert ^f   Jabłońska, Ewa ^g   Kotowski, Wiktor ^g   Okruszko, Tomasz ^h   Pawlikowski, Paweł ^g   De Ruiter, Peter C ^d   Wassen, Martin J ⁱ  

^a KWR WATERCYCLE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^h WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

ⁱ UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS;

DRY MATTER; ENDANGERED SPECIES; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; PHOSPHORUS; PLANT; SEXUAL REPRODUCTION; STOCHASTICITY; VULNERABILITY; WETLAND;

ARTICLE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT REPRODUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; STOICHIOMETRY; VEGETATION; ADAPTATION; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BIODIVERSITY; DEFICIENCY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; METABOLISM; PLANT; PLANT LEAF; VASCULAR BUNDLE (PLANT);

EURASIA;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT VASCULAR BUNDLE; PLANTS; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 84892370451     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature12733     Document Type: Article

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