Evolvability of between-year seed dormancy in populations along an aridity gradient

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 924-934

  Lampei, Christian ^a   Tielbörger, Katja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Annual plants; Bet hedging; Climate change; Heritability; Risk spreading

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ARIDITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; COEXISTENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; GERMINATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HERB; HERITABILITY; IRRIGATION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PERENNIAL PLANT; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SEED DORMANCY; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ISRAEL;

BISCUTELLA; BROMUS; BROMUS FASCICULATUS;

EID: 77954754870     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2010.01453.x     Document Type: Article

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