Sequential decline in allocation among flowers within inflorescences: Proximate mechanisms and adaptive significance

Ecology

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1675-1687

  Kliber, Agnes ^a   Eckert, Christopher G ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Allocation; Aquilegia canadensis; Columbine; Herbivory; Outcrossing; Pollen limitation; Resource limitation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANGIOSPERM; HERBIVORY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY;

ANIMALIA; AQUILEGIA; AQUILEGIA CAERULEA; AQUILEGIA CANADENSIS; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 4444263032     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/03-0477     Document Type: Article

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