How well do seed production traits correlate with leaf traits, whole-plant traits and plant ecological strategies?

Plant Ecology

Volumn 215, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1351-1359

  Pierce, Simon ^a   Bottinelli, Arianna ^b   Bassani, Ilaria ^b   Ceriani, Roberta M ^c   Cerabolini, Bruno E L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

^c The Native Flora Centre   (Italy)

Author keywords

CSR classification; Plant functional type; UAST; Universal adaptive strategy theory; Worldwide leaf economics spectrum

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; HABITAT USE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PLANT COMMUNITY; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SEED PRODUCTION; CLASSIFICATION; CORRELATION; FLOWERING; SEED SIZE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ITALY;

EID: 84910151862     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: 15735052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-014-0392-1     Document Type: Article

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