Local adaptation of the clonal plant Ranunculus reptans to flooding along a small-scale gradient

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 696-706

  Lenssen, John P M ^a   Van Kleunen, Mark ^b,c   Fischer, Markus ^b,c   De Kroon, Hans ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aerenchyma; Carbohydrate storage; Clonal plant; Flooding; Local adaptation; Microevolution; Phenotypic plasticity; Ranunculus

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CARBOHYDRATE; EVOLUTION; FLOOD; GENETIC VARIATION;

RANUNCULACEAE; RANUNCULUS; RANUNCULUS FLAMMULA FILIFORMIS;

EID: 3943088456     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-0477.2004.00895.x     Document Type: Article

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