How does flowering magnitude affect seed survival in Shorea pilosa (Dipterocarpaceae) at the predispersal stage in Malaysia?

Plant Species Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 104-108

  Tokumoto, Yuji ^a   Matsushita, Michinari ^a   Tamaki, Ichiro ^a   Sakai, Shoko ^b   Nakagawa, Michiko ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR HUMANITY AND NATURE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Animal pollination hypothesis; Bagged experiment; General flowering; Predator satiation hypothesis; Tropical rainforest

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; DIPTEROCARPACEAE; SHOREA PILOSA;

EID: 68949167348     PISSN: 0913557X     EISSN: 14421984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-1984.2009.00243.x     Document Type: Review

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