Fruit shape variation in Fraxinus mandshurica var. japonica characterized using elliptic Fourier descriptors and the effect on flight duration

Ecological Research

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 733-738

  Goto, Susumu ^a   Iwata, Hiroyoshi ^b   Shibano, Shinsaku ^a   Ohya, Kazumi ^a   Suzuki, Akira ^a   Ogawa, Hitomi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Elliptic Fourier descriptors; Flight duration; Fraxinus mandshurica; Fruit shape; Principal component analysis

Indexed keywords

DECIDUOUS TREE; DISPERSION; FLIGHT ACTIVITY; FRUIT; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; MORPHOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

FRAXINUS; FRAXINUS MANDSHURICA; JAPONICA;

EID: 33746604389     PISSN: 09123814     EISSN: 14401703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11284-005-0090-5     Document Type: Article

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