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Seed release without fire in Pinus halepensis, a Mediterranean serotinous wind-dispersed tree

  1. Ran Nathan1,*,
  2. Uriel N. Safriel1,
  3. Imanuel Noy-Meir1,
  4. Gabriel Schiller2

Article first published online: 24 DEC 2001

DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2745.1999.00382.x

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Journal of Ecology

Journal of Ecology

Volume 87, Issue 4, pages 659–669, July 1999

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Nathan, R., Safriel, U. N., Noy-Meir, I. and Schiller, G. (1999), Seed release without fire in Pinus halepensis, a Mediterranean serotinous wind-dispersed tree . Journal of Ecology, 87: 659–669. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2745.1999.00382.x

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  1. 1

    Department of Evolution, Systematics and Ecology, The Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel; and

  2. 2

    Department of Field Crops and Natural Resources, Agricultural Research Organization, The Volcani Center, Bet Dagan 50250, Israel

* Present address and correspondence: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA (fax 609 258 1334; e-mail rann@eno.princeton.edu).

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