Prior reproduction and weather affect berry crops in central Ontario, Canada

Population Ecology

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 347-356

  Howe, Eric J ^a   Obbard, Martyn E ^a   Bowman, Jeff ^a  

^a TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Berry crops; Endozoochory; Masting; Moran effect; Pulsed resources; Seedfall

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; FRUIT PRODUCTION; MASTING; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PERENNIAL PLANT; PRIORITIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; ZOOCHORY;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

AMELANCHIER; AMELANCHIER ALNIFOLIA; CORNACEAE; CORNUS; PRUNUS; SORBUS; VIBURNUM; VIBURNUM LENTAGO;

EID: 84859104464     PISSN: 14383896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10144-011-0301-6     Document Type: Article

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