Competition and a short growing season lead to ecotypic differentiation at the two extremes of the ecological range

Functional Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 397-404

  Liancourt, Pierre ^a   Tielbörger, Katja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aridity gradient; Biotic interactions; Ecotype; Local adaptation; Phenology; Stress

Indexed keywords

ARIDITY; BIOMASS; COMPETITIVE ABILITY; ECOTYPE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FLOWERING; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GRASS; GROWING SEASON; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; LOCAL ADAPTATION; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; PHENOLOGY; RANGE SIZE;

BRACHYPODIUM DISTACHYON; BROMUS; BROMUS FASCICULATUS;

EID: 62449092293     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2008.01497.x     Document Type: Article

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