Fire-stimulated flowering among resprouters and geophytes in Australia and South Africa

Plant Ecology

Volumn 212, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2111-2125

  Lamont, Byron B ^a,b   Downes, Katherine S ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Evolution; Grasstrees; Mediterranean; Orchids; Phenology; Trade offs

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; DATA SET; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FLOWERING; GEOPHYTE; GRASS; HERB; HERBIVORY; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; NATURAL SELECTION; PHENOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; RESPROUTING; SAVANNA; TOLERANCE; TRADE-OFF;

AUSTRALIA; MADAGASCAR; SOUTH AFRICA;

CYCADOPSIDA; DROSERA; ORCHIDACEAE; POACEAE; PROTEACEAE; SPERMATOPHYTA; VISCUM ALBUM;

EID: 83055180699     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-011-9987-y     Document Type: Article

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