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18 Jul 2016
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Experimental sand burial affects seedling survivorship, morphological traits, and biomass allocation of Ulmus pumila var. sabulosa in the Horqin Sandy Land, China
Jiao Tang
Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang,
110016, China
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100048, China
Carlos Alberto Busso
Departamento de Agronomía-CERZOS (CONICET: Consejo Nacional de
Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas de la República
Argentina), Universidad Nacional del Sur, San Andrés 800, 8000
Bahía Blanca, Argentina
Deming Jiang
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang,
110016, China
Ala Musa
Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang,
110016, China
Dafu Wu
Department of Resource and Environment, Henan Institute of Science and
Technology, Xinxiang, 453003, China
Yongcui Wang
Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang,
110016, China
Chunping Miao
Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang,
110016, China
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100048, China
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Short summary
In order to test the tolerance of sandy elm after emergence, an experiment was conducted to evaluate the changes of survivorship, morphological traits and biomass allocation buried by various experimental burial depths. The results showed that partial sand burial did not influence survivorship but increased seedling height, diameter, taproot length, total biomass, and relative growth rates. It decreased total leaf area and changed biomass allocation, transferring more biomass to aboveground.
In order to test the tolerance of sandy elm after emergence, an experiment was conducted to...
