Germ banking: Bet-hedging and variable release from egg and seed dormancy

Quarterly Review of Biology

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 431-451

  Evans, Margaret E K ^a,b   Dennehy, John J ^b  

^a WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive coin flipping; Bet hedging; Delayed hatching; Diapause; Dormancy; Emergence; Environmental variability; Geometric mean; Germination; Maternal effects; Seed bank; Storage hypothesis; Temporal dispersal

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; CRUSTACEA; DISASTER; GERMINATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; NOMENCLATURE; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT SEED; REVIEW;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CRUSTACEA; GERMINATION; NATURAL DISASTERS; OVUM; PLANTS; SEEDS; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 31544434263     PISSN: 00335770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/498282     Document Type: Review

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