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Inference of seed bank parameters in two wild tomato species using ecological and genetic data.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 11 Oct 2011
Tellier Aurélien, Laurent Stefan J Y, Lainer Hilde, Pavlidis Pavlos, Stephan Wolfgang
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Seed and egg dormancy is a prevalent life-history trait in plants and invertebrates whose storage effect buffers against environmental variability, modulates species extinction in fragmented habitats, and increases genetic variation. Experimental evidence for reliable differences in dormancy over evolutionary scales (e.g., differences in seed banks between sister species) is scarce because complex ecological...
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