Digging deep to open the white black box of snow root phenology

Ecological Research

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 529-534

  Onipchenko, Vladimir G ^a,b,c   Kipkeev, Alii M ^b   Makarov, Mikhail I ^a   Kozhevnikova, Anna D ^d   Ivanov, Victor B ^d   Soudzilovskaia, Nadejda A ^e   Tekeev, Dzhamal K ^c   Salpagarova, Fatima S ^b   Werger, Marinus J A ^f   Cornelissen, Johannes H C ^e  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b Department of Natural History   (Russian Federation)

^c Teberda State Reserve   (Russian Federation)

^d TIMIRYAZEV INSTITUTE OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^e VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^f UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Alpine snow bed; Anatomy; Life history; Nutrient uptake strategy; Snow roots; Winter ecology

Indexed keywords

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EID: 84904578307     PISSN: 09123814     EISSN: 14401703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11284-013-1112-3     Document Type: Article

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