Quantifying and understanding reproductive allocation schedules in plants

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 5, Issue 23, 2015, Pages 5521-5538

  Wenk, Elizabeth Hedi ^a   Falster, Daniel S ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Functional traits; Growth strategy; Iteroparous; Life history; Maximum height; Reproductive allocation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84953455689     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.1802     Document Type: Article

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