The effects of serotiny and rainfall-cued dispersal on fitness: Bet-hedging in the threatened cactus Mammillaria pectinifera

Population Ecology

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 383-392

  Peters, Edward M ^a   Martorell, Carlos ^b   Ezcurra, Exequiel ^c  

^a Instituto Nacional de Ecologia   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bradyspory; El Ni o La Ni a; Environmental stochasticity; Hygrochasy; Seed bank; Stochastic population models

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; CACTUS; DEMOGRAPHY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FITNESS; FRUIT; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODELING; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; PROPAGULE; RAINFALL; REPRODUCTION; SEROTINY; STOCHASTICITY;

CACTACEAE; MAMMILLARIA PECTINIFERA;

EID: 79551581842     PISSN: 14383896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10144-010-0239-0     Document Type: Article

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