Adaptation and inertia in the australian tropical lowland rain-forest flora: Contradictory trends in intergeneric and intrageneric comparisons of seed size in relation to light demand

Functional Ecology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 512-520

  Grubb, P J ^a   Metcalfe, D J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Phylogenetically controlled comparisons; seed mass; shade tolerance; tropical rain forest

Indexed keywords

LIGHT; RAINFOREST; SEED DISPERSAL; SEED SIZE; SHADE TOLERANCE;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0030304886     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2389944     Document Type: Article

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