Long-term patterns of mast fruiting in fraxinus excelsior

Ecology

Volumn 77, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 2567-2572

  Tapper, Per Göran ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRAXINUS; FRAXINUS EXCELSIOR;

EID: 0001465392     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2265756     Document Type: Article

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