Can wind pollination provide a selective benefit to mast seeding in chionochloa macra (poaceae) at Mt Hutt, New Zealand?

New Zealand Journal of Botany

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 637-643

  Tisch, Phillip A ^a   Kelly, Dave ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Chionochloa; Economies of scale; Inbreeding depression; Mass flowering; Mast seeding; Poaceae; Predator satiation; Wind pollination

Indexed keywords

MAST SEEDING; NEW ZEALAND; POLLINATION; WIND;

POLLINATION; WIND;

MOUNT HUTT; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND;

CHIONOCHLOA MACRA; CHIONOCHLOA PALLENS;

EID: 0032409219     PISSN: 0028825X     EISSN: 11758643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0028825X.1998.9512600     Document Type: Article

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