Associations between the morphology and biomechanical properties of submerged macrophytes: implications for its survival and distribution in Lake Erhai

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 3907-3916

  Zhu, Guorong ^a,b,d   Zhang, Meng ^c   Cao, Te ^a   Ni, Leyi ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (China)

^b HENAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Jiangxi Academy of Environmental Sciences   (China)

^d NONE   (China)

Author keywords

Biomechanical properties; Hydraulic forces; Spatial distribution; Trade off; Vallisneria natans

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; DRAG; ECOLOGY; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ECOSYSTEMS; LAKES; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANTS (BOTANY); SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STRESSES;

BIOMECHANICAL PROPERTIES; HYDRAULIC FORCE; MECHANICAL DAMAGES; MECHANICAL RESISTANCE; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAITS; SUBMERGED MACROPHYTES; TRADE OFF; VALLISNERIA;

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS;

ALGA; BIOMECHANICS; DRAG; GROWTH RATE; HYDRAULIC PROPERTY; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; LIFE CYCLE; MORPHOLOGY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SUBMERGED VEGETATION; SURVIVAL; TRADE-OFF;

CHINA; ERHAI LAKE; YUNNAN;

VALLISNERIA NATANS;

EID: 84940611330     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-015-4267-0     Document Type: Article

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