Flee or fight uncertainty: Plant strategies in relation to anticipated damage

Ecology Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 361-366

  Järemo, Johannes ^a   Ripa, Jörgen ^a   Nilsson, Patric ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bet hedging; Bud dormancy; Compensation; Damage; Flowering time; Herbivory; Predictability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032717387     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.1999.00095.x     Document Type: Article

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