Root plasticity of populus euphratica seedlings in response to different water table depths and contrasting sediment types

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Wang, Lijuan ^a,b,c   Zhao, Chengyi ^a   Li, Jun ^a   Liu, Zhihui ^b   Wang, Jianghong ^d  

^a XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

^b XINJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d Bayingol Mongolian autonomous prefecture Environmental Monitoring station   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN; GROUND WATER;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS ALLOCATION; CLAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESERT; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FLOODPLAIN; HYDROLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT RESPONSE; PLANT ROOT; POPULUS; POPULUS EUPHRATICA; RIVER; SAND; SEDIMENT; SEEDLING; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER TABLE; ADAPTATION; BIOMASS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY;

POPULUS EUPHRATICA;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BIOMASS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GROUNDWATER; PLANT ROOTS; POPULUS; SEEDLINGS;

EID: 84924303497     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0118691     Document Type: Article

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