Bet hedging in desert winter annual plants: Optimal germination strategies in a variable environment

Ecology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 380-387

  Gremer, Jennifer R ^a   Venable, D Lawrence ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Bet hedging; Delayed germination; Density dependence; Desert annuals; Evolutionarily stable strategies; Population dynamic models; Seed bank

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BET HEDGING; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DELAYED GERMINATION; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; DESERT ANNUALS; DESERT CLIMATE; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGIES; GERMINATION; LETTER; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMIC MODELS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEED BANK; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TIME; UNITED STATES;

BET HEDGING; DELAYED GERMINATION; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; DESERT ANNUALS; EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGIES; POPULATION DYNAMIC MODELS; SEED BANK;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ARIZONA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DESERT CLIMATE; GERMINATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESSES; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEEDS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84892674194     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12241     Document Type: Article

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