Exceptional fruitfulness and its biological significance
- 30 June 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by The Royal Society in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. B. Biological Sciences
- Vol. 193 (1113), 455-460
- https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.1976.0057
Abstract
Data concerning exceptionally fruitful individuals of 45 spp. are recorded and related to the average seed production in the same region. The causes appear to be, usually, an exceptional combination of extrinsic factors but such individuals, it is suggested, might play an important role in restoring depleted populations.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- Effect of size of seed on plant productionActa Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae, 2017