Evolutionarily stable germination strategies with time-correlated yield

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 255-261

  Valleriani, Angelo ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF COLLOIDS AND INTERFACES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auto correlation; Delayed germination; Dormancy; Environmental stochasticity; Evolutionarily stable strategy; Seed bank

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; GERMINATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; SEED; SEED DORMANCY;

ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GERMINATION; MORTALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROBABILITY; SEASON; SPECIES EXTINCTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TIME; VALIDATION STUDY;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; GERMINATION; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MORTALITY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROBABILITY; RAIN; SEASONS; SEEDS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33749247436     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: 10960325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2006.07.008     Document Type: Article

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