The scaling of reproductive variability in trees

Ecology Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 850-856

  Kerkhoff, Andrew J ^a   Ballantyne IV, Ford ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Macroecology; Masting; Mean variance scaling; Pollen coupling; Reproductive strategies; Taylor's power law

Indexed keywords

POWER LAW; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SYNCHRONY; TREE;

ANIMALIA; CONIFEROPHYTA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 0043287767     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2003.00513.x     Document Type: Article

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