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Debreczy, Zs.: Fluctuating-dynamic equilibrium of photophil, xerophil rupicolous plant communities and scrub woods at the lower arid woodland limit

Fig. 17. Semiwoody type growth forms of Cotinus within the scrub wood margin. Old subterranean stems with younger (5-10 years old) branches suffer periodical destruction. Old stems slowly separeted by dead sections from the polycormon system are specially subject of to damage or more often are killed during the dry periods following drought and subsequent frosts