Patchy habitats, division of labour and growth dividends in clonal plants

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 390-394

  Hutchings, Michael J ^a   Wijesinghe, Dushyantha K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLONAL PLANT; DIVISION OF LABOUR; GROWTH; PATCHINESS; RESOURCE ACQUISITION;

CLONING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; PLANT GROWTH; PREDICTION; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 0031418962     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5347(97)87382-X     Document Type: Review

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