Differentiation along a gradient of environmental productivity and predictability in populations of Hordeum spontaneum Koch: Multilevel selection analysis

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 313-318

  Volis, Sergei ^a   Mendlinger, Samuel ^a   Ward, David ^a,b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Contextual analysis; Evolution; Hordeum spontaneum; Multilevel selection; Nutrient stress; Path analysis; Plant strategy; Water stress

Indexed keywords

ECOTYPE; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; PATH ANALYSIS; SELECTION;

HORDEUM; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. SPONTANEUM; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE;

EID: 0036521039     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1095-8312.2002.00021.x     Document Type: Article

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