Differentiation in populations of Hordeum spontaneum along a gradient of environmental productivity and predictability: Life history and local adaptation

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 479-490

  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

Aridity gradient; Ecotype; Plant strategy; Reciprocal transplant; Wild barley

Indexed keywords

ARIDITY; ECOTYPE; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; LIFE HISTORY; LOCAL ADAPTATION; PRODUCTIVITY;

ISRAEL;

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

EID: 0036914097     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1095-8312.2002.00120.x     Document Type: Article

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