Mast seeding in perennial plants: Why, how, where?

Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics

Volumn 33, Issue , 2002, Pages 427-447

  Kelly, Dave ^a   Sork, Victoria L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispersal; Economies of scale; Mass flowering; Predator satiation; Wind pollination

Indexed keywords

ANEMOPHILY; MASTING; PERENNIAL PLANT; POLLINATION; SEED DISPERSAL; SEED PREDATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0036913927     PISSN: 00664162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.33.020602.095433     Document Type: Review

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