Recruitment trade-offs and the evolution of dispersal mechanisms in plants

Evolutionary Ecology

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 411-423

  Eriksson, Ove ^a   Jakobsson, Anna ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Angiosperm evolution; Dispersal spectra; Endozoochory; Plant life histories; Seed dispersal

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; RECRUITMENT; SEED DISPERSAL; SEED SIZE; TRADE-OFF;

EID: 0033362095     PISSN: 02697653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006729311664     Document Type: Article

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