Plant performance across latitude: The role of plasticity and local adaptation in an aquatic plant

Ecology

Volumn 84, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 2454-2461

  Santamaria L ^a,e   Figuerola, J ^b   Pilon, J J ^a   Mjelde, M ^c   Green, A J ^b   De Boer, T ^a   King, R A ^d   Gornall, R J ^d  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^e INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC PLANT; EVOLUTION; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; LOCAL ADAPTATION; PLASTICITY;

BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; WESTERN EUROPE;

PECTINATUS; POTAMOGETON; POTAMOGETON PECTINATUS; STUCKENIA PECTINATUS;

EID: 0344585308     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/02-0431     Document Type: Article

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