Variation at range margins across multiple spatial scales: Environmental temperature, population genetics and metabolomic phenotype

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1661, 2009, Pages 1495-1506

  Kunin, William E ^a   Vergeer, Philippine ^a   Kenta, Tanaka ^b,c   Davey, Matthew P ^b   Burke, Terry ^b   Woodward, F Ian ^b   Quick, Paul ^b   Mannarelli, Maria Elena ^b   Watson Haigh, Nathan S ^b,d   Butlin, Roger ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Isolation by distance; Marginal populations; Metabolomics; Microclimate; Postgenomics; Spatial structure

Indexed keywords

DICOTYLEDON; FRAGMENTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOMICS; ISOLATED POPULATION; MICROCLIMATE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RANGE SIZE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GENETIC ISOLATION BY DISTANCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); METABOLOMICS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PLANT GROWTH; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

ARABIDOPSIS LYRATA;

EID: 66149170336     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.1767     Document Type: Article

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