Optimal distribution of herbivory and localized compensatory responses within a plant

Vegetatio

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 99-109

  Lehtilä, Kari ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Compensation after herbivory; Leaf damage pattern; Modularity; Optimal models; Plants; Sectoriality

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030443115     PISSN: 00423106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00054851     Document Type: Conference Paper

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