Experimental evidence for the Berg hypothesis: Vegetative traits are more sensitive than pollination traits to environmental variation

Functional Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 247-257

  Pélabon, Christophe ^a   Armbruster, W Scott ^a,b,c   Hansen, Thomas F ^d  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Berg hypothesis; Canalization; Dalechampia scandens; Homology; Insect pollination; Integration; Modularity; Phenotypic plasticity

Indexed keywords

CANALIZATION (BIOLOGY); EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLORISTICS; HOMOLOGY; IRRADIANCE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; POLLINATION;

DALECHAMPIA SCANDENS; HEXAPODA;

EID: 78751696894     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2010.01770.x     Document Type: Article

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