Annual Plants: Adaptations to Desert Environments
- 1 February 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in BioScience
- Vol. 27 (2) , 109-114
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1297607
Abstract
In addition to the commonly described characteristics of ephemeral phenology and germination regulation mechanisms, desert annual plants use a variety of patterns of morphological adaptation, physiological adaptation of metabolic systems and phenotypic plasticity to maintain their ecological success.This publication has 19 references indexed in Scilit:
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