Females make tough neighbors: Sex-specific competitive effects in seedlings of a dioecious grass

Oecologia

Volumn 146, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 549-554

  Eppley, Sarah M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition; Dioecy; Distichlis; Mating system; Sex ratio

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); GRASS; REPRODUCTION; SEX RATIO; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; POACEAE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCTION; SEEDLING; SEX RATIO; SOIL; UNITED STATES;

AGRICULTURE; CALIFORNIA; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; PHENOTYPE; POACEAE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCTION; SEEDLING; SEX RATIO; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

DISTICHLIS; DISTICHLIS SPICATA;

EID: 29144526583     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-005-0026-3     Document Type: Article

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