Interrelationships among life-history traits in three California oaks

Oecologia

Volumn 171, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 129-139

  Barringer, Brian C ^a   Koenig, Walter D ^b   Knops, Johannes M H ^c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

Author keywords

Autocorrelation; Correlation; Life history; Quercus; Resource partitioning

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; DECIDUOUS TREE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; LITTERFALL; NICHE PARTITIONING; REPRODUCTIVE COST; TRADE-OFF;

QUERCUS;

EID: 84872127132     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-012-2386-9     Document Type: Article

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