A demographic model explains life-history variation in Arabis fecunda

Functional Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 471-477

  Lesica, P ^a   Young, T P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Demography; Environmental stress; Iteroparity; Life history; Reproductive mode; Semelparity; Threshold trait

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHY; EVOLUTION; HERB; LIFE HISTORY; REPRODUCTION;

ARABIS; ARABIS FECUNDA;

EID: 23444453215     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2005.00972.x     Document Type: Article

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