Is reproductive allocation in Senecio vulgaris plastic?

Botany

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 475-481

  Weiner, Jacob ^a   Rosenmeier, Lars ^a   Massoni, Emma Soy ^b   Vera, Josep Nogués ^b   Plaza, Eva Hernández ^b   Sebastiá, Maria Teresa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Allometry; Common groundsel; Plasticity; Size effects

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; BIOMASS; HERB; LIFE CYCLE; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SIZE EFFECT;

SENECIO; SENECIO VULGARIS;

EID: 67249162566     PISSN: 19162804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/B09-012     Document Type: Article

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