Local adaptation at the range peripheries of Sitka spruce

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 249-258

  Mimura, M ^a   Aitken, S N ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gene flow; Local adaptation; Phenology; Phenotypic plasticity; Picea sitchensis; Range wide

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROUS TREE; GENE FLOW; LOCAL ADAPTATION; PHENOLOGY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; RANGE EXPANSION;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; GENE FLOW; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOPERIODICITY; SEEDLING; SPRUCE; TEMPERATURE;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; CLIMATE; GENE FLOW; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOPERIOD; PICEA; SEEDLING; TEMPERATURE;

PICEA SITCHENSIS;

EID: 74349111792     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: 14209101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2009.01910.x     Document Type: Article

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