Plasticity versus canalization: Population differences in the timing of shade-avoidance responses

Evolution

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 441-451

  Weinig, Cynthia ^a,b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive plasticity; Canalization; Environmental cues; Interspecific competition; Shade avoidance responses

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GROWTH RESPONSE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; SHADING; SPECIALIZATION;

ABUTILON THEOPHRASTI;

EID: 0034118830     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2000.tb00047.x     Document Type: Article

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