Environment-enhanced self-fertilization: Implications for niche shifts in adjacent populations

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 98, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1276-1283

  Levin, Donald A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Ecological divergence; Marginal habitats; Niche shifts; Phenotypic plasticity; Reproductive ecology; Reproductive isolation; Self compatibility; Speciation

Indexed keywords

AUTOGAMY; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DIVERGENCE; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISM; HABITAT TYPE; LOCAL ADAPTATION; NATURAL SELECTION; NICHE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; POLLEN; POPULATION STRUCTURE; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SURVIVAL; TOLERANCE;

EID: 77958184204     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2010.01715.x     Document Type: Review

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