Relationships among time, frequency, and duration of flowering in tropical rain forest trees

American Journal of Botany

Volumn 90, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 877-887

  Bawa, Kamaljit S ^a   Kang, Hyesoon ^b   Grayum, Michael H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^b Sungshin Women's University   (South Korea)

^c MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN   (United States)

Author keywords

Costa Rica; Flowering patterns; Flowering phenology; Phylogeny; Tropical forests

Indexed keywords

FLOWERING; PHENOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; RAINFOREST; TREE; TROPICAL FOREST;

COSTA RICA;

EID: 0037832511     PISSN: 00029122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3732/ajb.90.6.877     Document Type: Article

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