Life on the edge: Adaptation versus environmentally mediated gene flow in the snow buttercup, Ranunculus adoneus

American Naturalist

Volumn 150, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 143-178

  Stanton, Maureen L ^a   Galen, Candace ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; DISPERSAL; GENE FLOW; SEEDLING EMERGENCE; SELECTION; SNOW BUTTERCUP; SNOWMELT;

RANUNCULACEAE; RANUNCULUS ADONEUS; RANUNCULUS NIVALIS;

EID: 0030768240     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/286061     Document Type: Article

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