Negative trend between seed size and adult leaf size throughout the geographical range of Fagus crenata

Ecoscience

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 226-228

  Hiura, Tsutom ^a   Koyama, Hiromasa ^b   Igarashi, Tsuneo ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Hokkaido Forest Experiment Station   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fagus crenata; Genetic constraints; Geographic variation; Seed size; Trade off

Indexed keywords

FAGUS; FAGUS CRENATA;

EID: 0001036243     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11956860.1996.11682336     Document Type: Article

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