Measuring mast seeding behavior: Relationships among population variation, individual variation and synchrony

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 224, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 107-114

  Buonaccorsi, John P ^a   Elkinton, Joseph ^a   Koenig, Walt ^b   Duncan, Richard P ^c   Kelly, Dave ^d   Sork, Victoria ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coefficient of variation; Seed production; Spatial correlation; Temporal variation; Time series

Indexed keywords

MASTING; SEED PRODUCTION; SYNCHRONY; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ARTICLE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PLANT SEED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEED PRODUCTION; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

EID: 0042668678     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-5193(03)00148-6     Document Type: Article

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