Plant height and evolutionary games

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 337-343

  Falster, Daniel S ^a   Westoby, Mark ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); EVOLUTION; GAME THEORY; HEIGHT; PLANT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

EID: 0038506392     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5347(03)00061-2     Document Type: Review

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