Effect of climate change on mast-seeding species: frequency of mass flowering and escape from specialist insect seed predators

Global Change Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 591-596

  McKone, Mark J ^a,c   Kelly, Dave ^a   Lee, William G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^c CARLETON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPINE GRASSLAND; FLOWERING; GLOBAL WARMING; MASTING PLANT; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; SEED PREDATOR;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 0031668637     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2486.1998.00172.x     Document Type: Article

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