A new apparatus to measure the rate of fall of seeds

Functional Ecology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 121-125

  Askew, A P ^a   Corker, D ^a   Hodkinson, D J ^a   Thompson, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Compositae; laser; seed size; terminal velocity; wind dispersal

Indexed keywords

SEED DISPERSAL; SEED SIZE; WIND DISPERSAL;

EID: 0030618964     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2435.1997.00049.x     Document Type: Article

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