Different cone colours pay off: Lessons learnt from European larch (Larix decidua) and Norway spruce (Picea abies)

Canadian Journal of Botany

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 132-140

  Geburek, Thomas ^a   Robitschek, Karin ^a   Milasowszky, Norbert ^a   Schadauer, Klemens ^a  

^a FEDERAL RESEARCH AND TRAINING CENTRE FOR FORESTS   (Austria)

Author keywords

Adaptive colouration; Altitude temperature gradient; Cone polymorphism; Spatial autocorrelation

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; ECOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLING;

ADAPTIVE COLOURATION; ALTITUDE TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; BINARY LOGISTIC REGRESSION (BLR); CONE POLYMORPHISM; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION;

SOFTWOODS;

ADAPTATION; COLOR; CONIFEROUS TREE; DECIDUOUS TREE; GENE FLOW; GENETIC STRUCTURE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; THERMOREGULATION;

CORRELATION; LARIX DECIDUA; PICEA ABIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLING;

LARIX; LARIX DECIDUA; PICEA ABIES;

EID: 34250314104     PISSN: 00084026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/B07-003     Document Type: Article

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