Cues versus proximate drivers: Testing the mechanism behind masting behavior

Oikos

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 179-184

  Pearse, Ian S ^a   Koenig, Walter D ^a,b   Knops, Johannes M H ^c  

^a Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION; DECIDUOUS FOREST; FLOWERING; MASTING; POLLINATION; RESOURCE SCARCITY; SEED PRODUCTION; SEED SET; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

QUERCUS LOBATA;

EID: 84892668609     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2013.00608.x     Document Type: Article

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