Sexual systems and measures of occupancy and abundance in an annual plant: Testing the metapopulation model

American Naturalist

Volumn 169, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 20-28

  Eppley, Sarah M ^a,b   Pannell, John R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abundance; Androdioecy; Colonization; Dioecy; Monoecy; Occupancy

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COLONIZATION; DIOECY; HERB; HERMAPHRODITE; METAPOPULATION; MONOECY; POPULATION MODELING;

ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; EUPHORBIA; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SPAIN;

ECOSYSTEM; EUPHORBIACEAE; REPRODUCTION; SPAIN;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

MERCURIALIS ANNUA;

EID: 33846204818     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/509944     Document Type: Article

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