Articles | Volume 7, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-7-1085-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-7-1085-2016
Research article
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18 Jul 2016
Research article |  | 18 Jul 2016

Experimental sand burial affects seedling survivorship, morphological traits, and biomass allocation of Ulmus pumila var. sabulosa in the Horqin Sandy Land, China

Jiao Tang, Carlos Alberto Busso, Deming Jiang, Ala Musa, Dafu Wu, Yongcui Wang, and Chunping Miao

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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.