How do plants know when other plants are flowering? Resource depletion, pollen limitation and mast-seeding in a perennial wildflower

Ecology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1119-1126

  Crone, Elizabeth E ^a   Miller, Elizabeth ^a   Sala, Anna ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternate bearing; Astragalus scaphoides; Carbohydrate metabolism; Mast seeding; Nonlinear dynamics; Pollen limitation; Synchrony

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS;

CARBOHYDRATE; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; FLOWERING; LEGUME; MASTING; METABOLISM; PERENNIAL PLANT; PLANT COMMUNITY; POLLEN; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SYNCHRONY;

ARTICLE; ASTRAGALUS PLANT; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; FLOWER; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; POLLEN; POPULATION DENSITY; REPRODUCTION; TIME;

ASTRAGALUS PLANT; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; FLOWERS; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; POLLEN; POPULATION DENSITY; REPRODUCTION; SEEDS; TIME FACTORS;

ASTRAGALUS SCAPHOIDES;

EID: 70350057445     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01365.x     Document Type: Article

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