Experiment meets biogeography: Plants of river corridor distribution are not more stress tolerant but benefit less from more benign conditions elsewhere

Journal of Plant Ecology

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 149-155

  Fischer, Markus ^a,b   Burkart, Michael ^a   Pasqualetto, Vanessa ^a   Van Kleunen, Mark ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Distributional patterns; Edaphic factors; Environmental tolerance; Flooding; Local adaptation; Multispecies experiment; Phenotypic plasticity

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956049563     PISSN: 17529921     EISSN: 1752993X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jpe/rtq013     Document Type: Article

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