Growing straight versus growing decumbent: Soil quality and allometry in syagrus glaucescens Becc. (Arecaceae), an endemic and threatened palm of the espinhaço mountains, Brazil

Acta Botanica Brasilica

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 417-424

  Miola, Deise Tatiane Bueno ^a   Fernandes, G Wilson ^b,c  

^a Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais ^*  (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aluminum saturation; Diamantina; Phenotypic variability; Rupestrian grasslands; Serra do Cip ; Soil plant relationships

Indexed keywords

EID: 84942316816     PISSN: 01023306     EISSN: 1677941X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/0102-33062015abb0030     Document Type: Article

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