The relationship between climatic conditions and generative reproduction of a lowland population of Pulsatilla vernalis: The last breath of a relict plant or a fluctuating cycle of regeneration?

Plant Ecology

Volumn 215, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 457-466

  Grzyl, Andrzej ^a   Kiedrzyński, Marcin ^a   Zielińska, Katarzyna M ^a   Rewicz, Agnieszka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

Author keywords

Alpine boreal plant; Climatic conditions; Effective recruitment; Flowering; Fruiting; Germination; Relict species; Seedling survival

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DEMOGRAPHY; DICOTYLEDON; DISPERSION; FLOWERING; GERMINATION; LONGEVITY; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REFUGIUM; REGENERATION; RELICT SPECIES; REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY; SHOOT; SURVIVAL;

LODZKIE; POLAND; ROGOWIEC;

PULSATILLA; PULSATILLA VERNALIS;

EID: 84896393501     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-014-0316-0     Document Type: Article

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