Seedling longevity under deep shade in relation to seed size

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 84, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 681-689

  Saverimuttu, Tharman ^a,b   Westoby, Mark ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b DEST   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dark respiration rate; Deployment; Phyiogenetically independent contrasts; Relative growth rate; Seedling longevity; Shade mortality

Indexed keywords

SEED SIZE; SEEDLING LONGEVITY; SHADE;

EID: 0030302260     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2261331     Document Type: Article

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