Fitness and evolution of resprouters in relation to fire

Plant Ecology

Volumn 212, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1945-1957

  Lamont, Byron B ^a,b   Enright, Neal J ^b   He, Tianhua ^a,c  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Banksia; Fire regime; Phylogeny; Vegetative resprouting

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CLONAL ORGANISM; DICOTYLEDON; DIEBACK; FECUNDITY; FITNESS; GENETICS; GROWTH RATE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REGENERATION; RESPROUTING; ROOTSTOCK; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); TRADE-OFF; WILDFIRE; WOODY PLANT;

BANKSIA; SPERMATOPHYTA;

EID: 83055187999     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-011-9982-3     Document Type: Article

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