Sex allocation in California Oaks: Trade-offs or resource tracking?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Knops, Johannes M H ^a   Koenig, Walter D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

^b Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; LIFE HISTORY; NONHUMAN; OAK; POPULATION PRODUCTIVITY; SEX ALLOCATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOIL FERTILITY; WATER AVAILABILITY;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIOMASS; CALIFORNIA; ENVIRONMENT; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; QUERCUS; REPRODUCTION; SOIL; WATER;

EID: 84865415424     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043492     Document Type: Article

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