Stabilizing selection for within-season flowering phenology confirms pollen limitation in a wind-pollinated tree
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phenology confirms pollen limitation in a wind-pollinated tree Walter D. Koenig*, Kyle A. Funk, Thomas S. Kraft, William J. Carmen, Brian C. Barringer and Johannes M. H. Knops Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA; Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA; School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska, 348 Manter Hall, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA; Department of Biology, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, USA; 145 Eldridge Ave., Mill Valley, CA 94941, USA; and The Pennsylvania State University, 25 Yearsley Mill Road, Media, PA 19063, USA
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