The avoidance strategy of environmental constraints by an aquatic plant Potamogeton alpinus in running waters

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 5, Issue 16, 2015, Pages 3327-3337

  Robionek, Alicja ^a   Banaś, Krzysztof ^a   Chmara, Rafał ^a   Szmeja, Józef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

Author keywords

Avoidance strategy; Hydrodynamic constraints; Phenotypic strategy; Trade off strategy; Water flow

Indexed keywords

POTAMOGETON ALPINUS;

EID: 84939469672     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.1598     Document Type: Article

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