Environmental variation has stronger effects than plant genotype on competition among plant species

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 96, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 947-955

  Johnson, Marc T J ^a,b   Dinnage, Russell ^a   Zhou, Alice Y ^a,c   Hunter, Mark D ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Character divergence; Co evolution; Co existence; Community genetics; Genetic correlation; Plant ecology; Species diversity

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BIOMASS; COEVOLUTION; COEXISTENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EVOLUTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FIELD METHOD; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTOXICITY; GENOTYPE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HOMOGENEITY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

BROMUS; BROMUS INERMIS; OENOTHERA; OENOTHERA BIENNIS;

EID: 49649112687     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2008.01410.x     Document Type: Article

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