An evolutionary approach to understanding the biology of invasions: Local adaptation and general-purpose genotypes in the weed Verbascum thapsus

Conservation Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 59-72

  Parker, Ingrid M ^a   Rodriguez, Joseph ^a   Loik, Michael E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CONSERVATION; EVOLUTION; GENOTYPE; LOCAL ADAPTATION; WEED;

UNITED STATES;

VERBASCUM; VERBASCUM THAPSUS;

EID: 0037324365     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.2003.02019.x     Document Type: Article

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