Recent invasion of the mountain birch Betula pubescens ssp. tortuosa above the treeline due to climate change: Genetic and ecological study in northern Sweden

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 369-380

  Truong, C ^a,c   Palme A E ^b   Felber, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques de la Ville de Genève ^*  (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Climate change; Microsatellites; Redundancy analysis; Spatial autocorrelation; Treeline dynamics

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; GENE FLOW; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GLOBAL WARMING; TREELINE;

AGE; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; BIRCH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GENETICS; SWEDEN; TEMPERATURE;

AGE FACTORS; ALTITUDE; BETULA; DEMOGRAPHY; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SWEDEN; TEMPERATURE; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

BETULA PUBESCENS; BETULA PUBESCENS SUBSP. TORTUOSA;

EID: 33845714333     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: 14209101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2006.01190.x     Document Type: Article

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