Competition for space can drive the evolution of dormancy in a temporally invariant environment

Plant Ecology

Volumn 208, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 167-185

  Satterthwaite, William H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dormancy; Seed bank; Sibling competition; Spatial competition

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DORMANCY; EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; FECUNDITY; GENOTYPE; INVASIBILITY; KIN RECOGNITION; KIN SELECTION; SEED BANK; SIBLING; SIMULATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EID: 77951977552     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-009-9696-y     Document Type: Article

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