Seed and fruit tradeoffs - the economics of seed packaging in Amazon pioneers

Plant Ecology and Diversity

Volumn 7, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 371-382

  Bentos, Tony V ^a   Mesquita, Rita C G ^a   Camargo, José L C ^a   Williamson, G Bruce ^b  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazon; fruit mass; fruit number; pioneers; seed mass; seed number; seeds per fruit; tradeoffs; tropical trees

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893225698     PISSN: 17550874     EISSN: 17551668     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17550874.2012.740081     Document Type: Article

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