Predation and protection in the macroevolutionary history of conifer cones

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1720, 2011, Pages 3003-3008

  Leslie, Andrew B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cone; Conifer; Predation; Reproductive allocation

Indexed keywords

BROWSING; CANOPY; CONIFEROUS TREE; FOSSIL RECORD; JURASSIC; LIFE HISTORY THEORY; MORPHOLOGY; PALEOZOIC; PENNSYLVANIAN; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; POLLEN; PREDATION; REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SEED SIZE; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; TIMESCALE;

ANIMALIA; CONIFEROPHYTA; HEXAPODA; SPERMATOPHYTA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 80052221552     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.2648     Document Type: Article

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