Flowers adaptively face down-slope in 10 forest-floor herbs

Functional Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 585-591

  Ushimaru, A ^a,c   Kawase, D ^b   Imamura, A ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR HUMANITY AND NATURE   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Down slope flower orientation; Erythronium japonicum; Reproductive success; Slope angle; Slope direction; Vertical orientation

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; ORIENTATION BEHAVIOR; POLLINATION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SLOPE; TEMPERATE FOREST;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

ANIMALIA; ERYTHRONIUM JAPONICUM;

EID: 33745849178     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2006.01153.x     Document Type: Article

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