Facilitation across stress gradients: The importance of local adaptation

Ecology

Volumn 88, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2404-2409

  Espeland, E K ^a   Rice, K J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Annual plants; Competition; Density dependence; Facilitation; Intraspecific; Local adaptation; Plantago erecta; Serpentine

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANNUAL PLANT; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIATION; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; PHYTOMASS; SEED; SERPENTINE;

PLANTAGO; PLANTAGO ERECTA;

RAUWOLFIA ALKALOID; SERPENTINE (ALKALOID); UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; DRUG EFFECT; ENVIRONMENT; GENE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; PLANTAGO; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GROWTH; SOIL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BIOMASS; ENVIRONMENT; GENES, PLANT; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; PLANTAGO; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GROWTH; SECOLOGANIN TRYPTAMINE ALKALOIDS; SOIL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 38449093527     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/06-1217.1     Document Type: Article

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