Allometric allocation in fruit and seed packaging conditions the conflict among selective pressures on seed size

Evolutionary Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 517-533

  Martínez, Isabel ^a   García, Daniel ^a   Obeso, José Ramón ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Allometry; Crataegus monogyna; Phenotypic selection; Seed dispersal; Seed predation; Seed size

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; FITNESS; FRUIT; LIFE CYCLE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SEED DISPERSAL; SEED SIZE; SELECTION; SHRUB; SIZE EFFECT; SURVIVAL;

AVES; CRATAEGUS; CRATAEGUS MONOGYNA; RODENTIA;

EID: 34347357570     PISSN: 02697653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10682-006-9132-x     Document Type: Article

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