Fitness Components versus Total Demographic Effects: Evaluating Herbivore Impacts on a Perennial Herb

American Naturalist

Volumn 162, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 796-810

  Ehrlén, Johan ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Damage manipulation; Demography; Life cycle approach; Matrix models; Mollusks; Plant fitness; Population growth rate

Indexed keywords

FITNESS; HERB; HERBIVORY; MOLLUSC; POPULATION GROWTH;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENT; FOOD CHAIN; GENETIC SELECTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LATHYRUS; MOLLUSC; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALS; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENT; FOOD CHAIN; LATHYRUS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLLUSCA; REPRODUCTION; SELECTION (GENETICS);

ANIMALIA; LATHYRUS; MOLLUSCA;

EID: 0742323137     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/379350     Document Type: Article

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