Reproductive correlation and mean-variance scaling of reproductive output for a forest model

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 235, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 373-380

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Masting; Power law; Reproductive variability; Scaling

Indexed keywords

FOREST; MASTING; MODELING; REPRODUCTIVE PRODUCTIVITY;

ARTICLE; FOREST; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PLANT REPRODUCTION; POLLEN ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALING ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCTION; TREES;

EID: 18844444751     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2005.01.017     Document Type: Article

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