Theory of mast reproduction in plants: Storage-size dependent strategy

Evolution

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1795-1807

  Yamauchi, Atsushi ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Mast seeding; model; plant; storage

Indexed keywords

MAST SEEDING; PLANT; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; STORAGE;

EID: 0029659307     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1996.tb03566.x     Document Type: Article

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