Range-edge effects promote clonal growth in peripheral populations of the one-sided wintergreen Orthilia secunda

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 546-555

  Beatty, Gemma E ^a   McEvoy, Peter M ^a   Sweeney, Oisín ^a   Provan, Jim ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clonal growth; Distribution rage; Fragmentation; Orthilia secunda; Range edge effects

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; AUTOGAMY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLONAL GROWTH; EDGE EFFECT; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENOTYPE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION GENETICS; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL REPRODUCTION; SHRUB; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; IRELAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SCOTLAND; SWEDEN; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

ORTHILIA SECUNDA;

EID: 42149103321     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2008.00469.x     Document Type: Article

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