Why be completely outcrossing? Evolutionarily stable outcrossing strategies in an environment where outcross-pollen availability is unpredictable

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 211-222

  Sakai, Satoki ^a   Ishii, Hiroshi S ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Best of both worlds; Delayed selfing; Environmental variability; Pollen availability; Prepotency; Reproductive assurance; Selective abortion; Self incompatibility; Selfing rate; Size number trade off of seeds

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011501608     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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