Coordinated shifts in allocation among reproductive tissues across 14 1 coexisting plant species
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a Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University NSW 2109, Australia 4 b Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, Umeå University, 90187 Umeå, Sweden 5 c Evolution and Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Science, 6 University of New South Wales 7 * Corresponding author: [email protected] 8 Key-words: reproduction, accessory costs, parental optimist, seed provisioning, selective abortion, 9 seed size-number trade-off 10
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تاریخ انتشار 2017