Does pre-dispersal seed predation limit reproduction and population growth in the alpine clonal plant Geum reptans?

Plant Ecology

Volumn 187, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 277-287

  Weppler, Tina ^a   Stöcklin, Jürg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Clonal growth; Gall midge; Geomyia alpina; Herbivory; Matrix projection modelling

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; CLONAL GROWTH; GALL INSECT; GERMINATION; GRANIVORY; HOST PLANT; MATRIX; PERSISTENCE; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; POPULATION GROWTH; SEED PREDATION;

CECIDOMYIIDAE; GEUM; GEUM REPTANS;

EID: 33750892119     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-006-9141-4     Document Type: Article

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