Life-history variation in contrasting habitats: Flowering decisions in a clonal perennial herb (Veratrum album)

American Naturalist

Volumn 172, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Hesse, Elze ^a,c   Rees, Mark ^b   Müller Schärer, Heinz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Demographic variation; Evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS); Integral projection models; Monocarpic ramets; Population dynamics; Reproductive mode

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FECUNDITY; FLOWERING; HERB; LIFE HISTORY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RAMET;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; FLOWER; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; VERATRUM;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ECOSYSTEM; FLOWERS; LOGISTIC MODELS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; TIME FACTORS; VERATRUM;

HELLEBORUS; VERATRUM; VERATRUM ALBUM;

EID: 54349121339     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/591683     Document Type: Article

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