Deadly combination of genes and drought: Increased mortality of herbivore-resistant trees in a foundation species

Global Change Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1949-1961

  Sthultz, Christopher M ^a   Gehring, Catherine A ^a,b   Whitham, Thomas G ^a,b  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Merriam Powell Center for Environmental Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Drought; Geneticvariation; Herbivory; Mortality; Pinus edulis; Pinyonpine; Resistance; Seedling experiment; Selection

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; DROUGHT; GENE; GENETIC VARIATION; HERBIVORY; MORTALITY; TREE;

DIORYCTRIA ALBOVITTELLA; LEPIDOPTERA; PINUS EDULIS;

EID: 67650112692     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.01901.x     Document Type: Article

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