A geographic mosaic of genetic variation within a foundation tree species and its community-level consequences

Ecology

Volumn 90, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1762-1772

  Barbour, Robert C ^a   O'Reilly Wapstra, Julianne M ^a   De Little, David W ^a   Jordan, Gregory J ^a   Steane, Dorothy A ^a   Humphreys, Jonathon R ^a   Bailey, Joseph K ^b   Whitham, Thomas G ^b   Potts, Bradley M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

(co)evolution; Australia; Common garden trial; Community genetics; Eucalyptus globulus; Forest tree; Leaf morphology; Neutral molecular markers; Plant secondary chemistry; Plant animal interactions; Provenance trial

Indexed keywords

COEVOLUTION; EVERGREEN FOREST; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; HYBRID; LEAF MORPHOLOGY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; EUCALYPTUS; EVOLUTION; FUNGUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; INSECT; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; EUCALYPTUS; EVOLUTION; FUNGI; GENETIC VARIATION; INSECTS;

ANIMALIA; EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS GLOBULUS;

EID: 67349277183     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-0951.1     Document Type: Article

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