Long-term patterns of acorn production for five oak species in xeric Florida uplands

Ecology

Volumn 84, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 2476-2492

  Abrahamson, Warren G ^a,b   Layne, James N ^a  

^a ARCHBOLD BIOLOGICAL STATION   (United States)

^b BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acorn; Crop size; Florida; Mast fruiting; Precipitation effects on reproduction; Quercus; Resource matching hypothesis; Sand pine scrub; Sandhill; Scrubby flatwoods

Indexed keywords

SEED PRODUCTION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TREE; UPLAND REGION;

FLORIDA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

PINUS CLAUSA; QUERCUS; QUERCUS ALBA; QUERCUS CHAPMANII; QUERCUS GEMINATA; QUERCUS INOPINA; QUERCUS LAEVIS; QUERCUS MYRTIFOLIA; QUERCUS RUBRA;

EID: 0344585301     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/01-0707     Document Type: Article

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