Frequency and Microenvironmental Pattern of Selection on Plastic Shade-Avoidance Traits in a Natural Population of Impatiens capensis

American Naturalist

Volumn 163, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 548-563

  Huber, Heidrun ^b   Kane, Nolan C ^c   Heschel, M Shane ^d   Von Wettberg, Eric J ^f   Banta, Joshua ^e   Leuck, Anne Marie ^a   Schmitt, Johanna ^f  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^f NONE

Author keywords

Environmental heterogeneity; Impatiens capensis; Natural selection; Path analysis; Phenotypic manipulation; Shade induced plasticity

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; HETEROGENEITY; NATURAL SELECTION; PLASTICITY; SHADE TOLERANCE;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; IMPATIENS; LIGHT; PHYSIOLOGY; SEEDLING;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; IMPATIENS; LIGHT; SEEDLING; SELECTION (GENETICS); SELECTION, GENETIC;

IMPATIENS; IMPATIENS CAPENSIS;

EID: 1042263333     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/382549     Document Type: Article

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