Maternal and ambient environmental effects of light on germination in Plantago lanceolata: Correlated responses to selection on leaf length

Functional Ecology

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 825-833

  Van Hinsberg, A ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Competition; Individual differences; Resource partitioning; Variability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031674221     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2435.1998.00251.x     Document Type: Article

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