Gene flow from foreign provenances into local plant populations: Fitness consequences and implications for biodiversity restoration

American Journal of Botany

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 94-100

  Crémieux, Lisèle ^a   Bischoff, Armin ^a,b   Müller Schärer, Heinz ^a   Steinger, Thomas ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^b Department of Biological Sciences   (France)

^c AGROSCOPE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Intraspecific hybridization; Large scale transplantation; Local adaptation; Outbreeding depression; Plantaginaceae; Plantago lanceolata

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSPECIFIC; DICOTYLEDON; FITNESS; GENE FLOW; GENOTYPE; GRASSLAND; GROWING SEASON; HYBRID; HYBRIDIZATION; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; LOCAL ADAPTATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; TRANSPLANTATION;

PLANTAGINACEAE; PLANTAGO; PLANTAGO LANCEOLATA;

EID: 73249116227     PISSN: 00029122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3732/ajb.0900103     Document Type: Article

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