Population ecology of wild sunflowers: Effects of seed density and post-dispersal vertebrate seed predators

Oecologia

Volumn 130, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 274-280

  Cummings, Charity L ^a   Alexander, Helen M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Helianthus annuus; Seeds; Superweeds; Transgenes

Indexed keywords

POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RECRUITMENT; SEED PREDATION;

KANSAS; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; HELIANTHUS; HELIANTHUS ANNUUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036933875     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420100806     Document Type: Article

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