The relationship between individual seed quality and maternal plant body size in crowded herbaceous vegetation

Journal of Plant Ecology

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 330-336

  Nishizawa, Tomo ^a   Aarssen, Lonnie W ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

competition; crowding; plant size; reproductive economy; seed mass; seed N content

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905198593     PISSN: 17529921     EISSN: 1752993X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jpe/rtt042     Document Type: Article

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