Plant compensatory growth: Herbivory or competition?

Oikos

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 238-247

  Järemo, Johannes ^a   Nilsson, Patric ^a   Tuomi, Juha ^a  

^a Lund Unit   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPENSATORY GROWTH; COMPETITION; HERBIVORY; PLANT ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 0030302008     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3546062     Document Type: Article

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