Differing selection in alternative competitive environments: Shade-avoidance responses and germination timing

Evolution

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 124-136

  Weinig, Cynthia ^a,b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlational selection; Environmental heterogeneity; Phenotypic selection; Plasticity; Shade avoidance responses

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; GERMINATION; NATURAL SELECTION; SHADE TOLERANCE;

ABUTILON THEOPHRASTI; GLYCINE MAX; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0034067851     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2000.tb00013.x     Document Type: Article

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