Resource allocation patterns of two California-Sonoran desert ephemerals

Oecologia ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. D. Clark ◽  
J. H. Burk
Keyword(s):  
Resource Allocation ◽  
Sonoran Desert ◽  
Allocation Patterns

Allocation of resources to sex functions in flowering plants

1991 ◽  
Vol 332 (1262) ◽  
pp. 91-102 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Resource Allocation ◽  
Natural Selection ◽  
Population Level ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Flowering Plants ◽  
Allocation Of Resources ◽  
Biological Reality ◽  
Theoretical Predictions ◽  
Allocation Patterns ◽  
Unisexual Flowers

The study of allocation of resources offers the possibility of understanding the pressures of natural selection on reproductive functions. In allocation studies, theoretical predictions are generated and the assumptions as well as the predictions can be tested in the field. Here, we review some of the theoretical models, and discuss how much biological reality can be included in them, and what factors have been left out. We also review the empirical data that have been generated as tests of this body of theory. There are many problems associated with estimating reproductive resources, and also with testing how allocation of these resources affects reproductive and other components of fitness, and we assess how important these may be in allowing empirical results to be interpreted. Finally, we discuss the relevance of resource allocation patterns to the evolution of unisexual flowers, both at the level of individual plants (monoecy, andro- and gynomonoecy) and at the population level (dioecy).

scholarly journals Relationships between resprouting ability, species traits and resource allocation patterns in woody species in a temperate forest

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (7) ◽  
pp. 1205-1215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rei Shibata ◽  
Hiroko Kurokawa ◽  
Mitsue Shibata ◽  
Hiroshi Tanaka ◽  
Shigeo Iida ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Resource Allocation ◽  
Temperate Forest ◽  
Woody Species ◽  
Species Traits ◽  
Allocation Patterns ◽  
Resprouting Ability
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