Damage tolerance and cotyledonary resource use in the tropical tree Gustavia superba

Oikos

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 257-264

  Dalling, J W ^a   Harms, Kyle E ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEED PREDATION; SEED SIZE; TROPICAL FOREST;

GUSTAVIA SUPERBA;

EID: 0033058083     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3546491     Document Type: Article

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