Costs of reproduction in subarctic Ranunculus acris: A five-year field experiment

Oikos

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 273-282

  Hemborg, Åsa M ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACRIS; RANUNCULACEAE; RANUNCULUS ACRIS;

EID: 0031743152     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3546838     Document Type: Article

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