Two fitness measures for clonal plants and the importance of spatial aspects

Plant Ecology

Volumn 141, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 191-199

  Winkler, E ^a   Fischer, M ^b  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Density control; ESS; Invasibility criterion; Mathematical modelling; Population dynamics; Reproductive allocation; Trade off

Indexed keywords

CLONAL ORGANISM; FITNESS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0032770735     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1009843619713     Document Type: Article

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