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Leaf morphological characters of 22 compositae herbaceous species in Horqin sandy land

LI Xiaolan1,2, LI Xuehua1,2, JIANG Deming1, LIU Zhimin1, WANG Hongmei1, JI Lanzhu 1   

  1. 1. Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, China;
    2. Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China
  • Received:2004-12-31 Revised:2005-03-13 Online:2005-12-10

Abstract: The study on the leaf traits of 22 compositae herbaceous species in Horqin sandy land indicated that there was a positive correlation between leaf volume and leaf thickness(r=0.782),while the correlations between leaf thickness and leaf tissue density,specific leaf area and leaf tissue density,and leaf volume and leaf tissue density were negative,with r values being-0.767,-0.559 and-0.505,respectively.No significant correlations were observed among other leaf traits.Based on the categorical or binary data,these 22 species were divided into 3 groups by cluster analysis.One-way ANOVA analysis suggested that there was a markedly significant difference among the groups in their leaf thickness,volume,weight ratio,and tissue density.

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