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CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS OF ECOLOGY
Volume 8, Issue 5, Pages 607-613Publisher
MAIK NAUKA/INTERPERIODICA/SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1134/S1995425515050133
Keywords
Thymus baicalensis; dwarf shrub; shoot formation; life form; morphological adaptation; environmental conditions
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- Russian Foundation for Basic Research [15-04-02857-a]
- Russian Scientific Fund [14-14-00453]
- Russian Science Foundation [14-14-00453] Funding Source: Russian Science Foundation
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Thymus baicalensis shoot formation and life-form diversity have been studied under the different environmental conditions of Ol'khon Island. It has been determined that a species life form represents a vegetative immovable aerial-axial dwarf shrub under mountain-steppe-hilltop conditions, while on the hill slope it is a vegetative immovable dwarf shrub of an elfin-wood-formation type; it tends to be cushionshaped in sandy steppes. The basis of a mature specimen can be formed by a monopodial and sympodial main axis increasing in increments. Changes in skeletal axis structures, length of time for their increase in increments, species-specific rooting characteristics, and spatial configuration can be the mechanisms of morphological adaptation to different ecological and coenotic conditions.
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