An experimental test for effects of the maternal environment on delayed germination

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 98, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1216-1223

  Tielbörger, Katja ^a   Petrů, Martina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive strategy; Annual plants; Bet hedging; Biscutella didyma; Bromus fasciculatus; Competition; Field rainfall manipulations; Hymenocarpos circinnatus; Predictive germination; Seed dormancy

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL PLANT; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GERMINATION; OVERCROWDING; PLANT COMMUNITY; RAINFALL; SEASONALITY; SEED DORMANCY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ISRAEL;

BISCUTELLA; BROMUS; BROMUS FASCICULATUS; HYMENOCARPOS CIRCINATUS;

EID: 77955402556     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2010.01682.x     Document Type: Article

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