Why red-dominated autumn leaves in America and yellow-dominated autumn leaves in Northern Europe?: Letters

New Phytologist

Volumn 183, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 506-512

  Lev Yadun, Simcha ^a   Holopainen, Jarmo K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Autumn leaf colour; Coevolution; Defence from herbivory; Evolution; Extinction; Fossil adaptation; Pleistocene; Tertiary

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANTIHERBIVORE DEFENSE; COEVOLUTION; COLOR MORPH; DOMINANCE; EXTINCTION; FOSSIL RECORD; LEAF; PALEOBOTANY; PLEISTOCENE; TERTIARY;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; COLOR; ECOSYSTEM; EUROPE; GEOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; PLANT LEAF; SEASON; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TREE; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AMERICAS; COLOR; ECOSYSTEM; EUROPE; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; GEOGRAPHY; PIGMENTATION; PLANT LEAVES; SEASONS; TREES;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN EUROPE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 67650938627     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2009.02904.x     Document Type: Article

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