Masting in Buxus balearica: Assessing fruiting patterns and processes at a large spatial scale

Oikos

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 229-240

  Lázaro, Amparo ^a,c   Traveset, Anna ^a   Méndez, Marcos ^b  

^a INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVERGREEN TREE; FLOWERING; FRUIT PRODUCTION; MASTING; POLLINATION; SHRUB; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

BALEARIC ISLANDS; EURASIA; EUROPE; IBERIAN PENINSULA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

BUXUS; BUXUS BALEARICA;

EID: 33750061313     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2006.0030-1299.14826.x     Document Type: Article

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