Invasive clonal plant species have a greater root-foraging plasticity than non-invasive ones

Oecologia

Volumn 174, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1055-1064

  Keser, Lidewij H ^a,b   Dawson, Wayne ^b   Song, Yao Bin ^c   Yu, Fei Hai ^d   Fischer, Markus ^a   Dong, Ming ^c   van Kleunen, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^d BEIJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Clonal growth; Nutrient foraging; Nutrient heterogeneity; Plant invasion; Pre adaptation

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CLONAL GROWTH; CLONAL ORGANISM; CORRELATION; INVASIVE SPECIES; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY;

EUROPE;

ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CELL CLONE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INTRODUCED SPECIES; PLANT ROOT; SOIL; UNITED STATES;

ANGIOSPERMS; BIOMASS; CLONE CELLS; INTRODUCED SPECIES; PLANT ROOTS; SOIL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84897594057     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-013-2829-y     Document Type: Article

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