Burial depth and stolon internode length independently affect survival of small clonal fragments.

Disturbance can fragment plant clones into different sizes and unstabilize soils to different degrees, so that clonal fragments of different sizes can be buried in soils at different depths. As a short-term storage organ, solon internode may help fragmented clones of stoloniferous plants to withstan...

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Main Authors: Bi-Cheng Dong, Rui-Hua Liu, Qian Zhang, Hong-Li Li, Ming-Xiang Zhang, Guang-Chun Lei, Fei-Hai Yu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3164666?pdf=render