Disentangling ecological, allometric and evolutionary determinants of the relationship between seed mass and elevation: Insights from multiple analyses of 1355 angiosperm species on the eastern Tibetan Plateau

Oikos

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 23-32

  Qi, Wei ^a   Guo, Shuqing ^b   Chen, Xuelin ^c   Cornelissen, Johannes H C ^d   Bu, Haiyan ^a   Du, Guozhen ^a   Cui, Xianliang ^e   Li, Wenjin ^a   Liu, Kun ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Hezuo Minorities Teachers' College   (China)

^c NORTHWEST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e Simao Teacher's College   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; ANGIOSPERM; BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; BODY MASS; DISPERSAL; ENERGY RESOURCE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; GROWTH RESPONSE; SEED; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 84890799087     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2013.00448.x     Document Type: Article

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