An extended flowering and fruiting season has few demographic effects in a Mediterranean perennial herb

Ecology

Volumn 83, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1991-2004

  Picó, F Xavier ^a,c   De Kroon, Hans ^b,c   Retana, Javier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Elasticity analysis; Extended flowering and fruiting; Lobularia maritima; Mediterranean environments; Periodic matrix model; Population growth rate; Stochastic simulations; Temporal variation; Variance decomposition analysis

Indexed keywords

FECUNDITY; FLOWERING; FRUITING; GROWING SEASON; PHENOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

LOBULARIA MARITIMA;

EID: 0038647721     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2002)083[1991:AEFAFS]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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