Ecological and Evolutionary Conditions for Fruit Abortion to Regulate Pollinating Seed-Eaters and Increase Plant Reproduction

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 251-263

  Holland, J Nathaniel ^a,b   DeAngelis, Donald L ^a  

^a Department of Biology   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive dynamics; Benefits; Costs; Evolutionarily stable strategy; Fruit abortion; Mutualism; Pollinating seed eaters; Population size

Indexed keywords

COEVOLUTION; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; MUTUALISM; POLLINATION;

CACTACEAE; LEPIDOPTERA; PACHYCEREUS SCHOTTII; YUCCA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FOOD CHAIN; FRUIT; INSECT; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; POLLEN; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FOOD CHAIN; FRUIT; INSECTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POLLEN; SEEDS; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 0036583959     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/tpbi.2001.1571     Document Type: Article

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