Responses to the timing of damage in an annual herb: Fitness components versus population performance

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 233-242

  Ramula, Satu ^a  

^a School of Life Sciences Södertörn University   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Demography; Elasticity analysis; Herbivory; LTRE analysis; Melampyrum pratense; Periodic matrix model; Plant fitness; Population growth rate

Indexed keywords

MELAMPYRUM PRATENSE;

EID: 41949087358     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: 16180089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2007.02.006     Document Type: Article

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