Life history variation in plants : An exploration of the fast-slow continuum hypothesis

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 351, Issue 1345, 1996, Pages 1341-1348

  Franco, Miguel ^a   Silvertown, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAST-SLOW CONTINUUM HYPOTHESIS; FECUNDITY; LIFE HISTORY; MORTALITY; SEXUAL MATURITY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030433332     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1996.0117     Document Type: Article

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