What plant ecologists can learn from zoology

Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 137-150

  Waser, Nickolas M ^b   Price, Mary V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ROCKY MOUNTAIN BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Granivory; Interspecific competition; Pollination; Population dynamics; Seed dispersal; Sexual reproduction

Indexed keywords

GRANIVORY; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; POLLINATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEED DISPERSAL; SEXUAL REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032311276     PISSN: 14338319     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1078/1433-8319-00056     Document Type: Article

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