The tolerance-fecundity trade-off and the maintenance of diversity in seed size

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 4242-4247

  Muller Landau, Helene C ^a,b  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition colonization trade off; Habitat partitioning; Seed mass; Species coexistence; Stress tolerance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FERTILITY; HABITAT; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PLANT COMMUNITY; PLANT SEED; PLANT STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

FERTILITY; PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; SEEDS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 77749288953     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0911637107     Document Type: Article

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