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Sex-Related Differences in Reproductive Allocation, Growth, Defense and Herbivory in Three Dioecious Neotropical Palms

BACKGROUND: Frequently, in dioecious plants, female plants allocate more resources to reproduction than male plants. Therefore it is expected that asymmetrical allocation to reproduction may lead to a reproduction-growth tradeoff, whereby female plants grow less than male plants, but invest more in...

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Autores principales: Cepeda-Cornejo, Verónica, Dirzo, Rodolfo
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2843723/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20352113
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0009824