The interplay of pollination, costs of reproduction and plant size in maternal fertility limitation in perennial Paeonia officinalis

Oecologia

Volumn 152, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 515-524

  Andrieu, Emilie ^a   Debussche, Max ^a   Galloni, Marta ^b   Thompson, John D ^a  

^a CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Forest closure; Pollen limitation; Rare species; Resource limitation; Self incompatibility

Indexed keywords

AUTOGAMY; BODY SIZE; FERTILITY; FITNESS; HERB; PERENNIAL PLANT; POLLEN LIMITATION; RARE SPECIES; REPRODUCTIVE COST; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SEED PRODUCTION; SELF INCOMPATIBILITY; SURVIVAL;

ARTICLE; BREEDING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FRANCE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; PAEONIA; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT INFERTILITY; PLANT SEED; POLLEN; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REPRODUCTION;

BREEDING; FRANCE; PAEONIA; PLANT INFERTILITY; POLLEN; REPRODUCTION; SEEDS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; WESTERN EUROPE;

PAEONIA; PAEONIA OFFICINALIS;

EID: 34247592050     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-007-0662-x     Document Type: Article

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