Flowering and fruiting phenology of a xerochamaephytic shrub community from the mountain of Mallorca (Balearic islands, Spain)

Plant Ecology

Volumn 174, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 293-303

  Tebar F J ^a   Gil, L ^a   Llorens, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Floral colour; Interspecific overlap; Intraspecific overlap; Mediterranean mountain communities

Indexed keywords

FLOWERING; FRUITING; PHENOLOGY; SHRUB;

BALEARIC ISLANDS; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; MAJORCA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; OCEANIC REGIONS; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; WORLD;

BALEARICA; GENISTA; ROSMARINUS OFFICINALIS; RUBIA;

EID: 26044440927     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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