Flowering-time plasticity facilitates niche shifts in adjacent populations

New Phytologist

Volumn 183, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 661-666

  Levin, Donald A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Assortative mating; Ecological divergence; Niche shift; Phenotypic plasticity; Speciation

Indexed keywords

ASSORTATIVE MATING; BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; DIVERGENCE; FLOWERING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIATION; LOCAL ADAPTATION; NICHE; PHENOLOGY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PLEIOTROPY; SELECTION; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENT; FLOWER; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; TIME;

ENVIRONMENT; FLOWERS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 67650941580     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2009.02889.x     Document Type: Article

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