Native perennial grasses show evolutionary response to Bromus tectorum (cheatgrass) invasion

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Goergen, Erin M ^a   Leger, Elizabeth A ^a   Espeland, Erin K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT PLANT; ARTICLE; BROMUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FLOWERING; GREENHOUSE; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; NONHUMAN; PERENNIAL PLANT; PHENOLOGY; PLANT EVOLUTION; PLANT GROWTH; POA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES INVASION; UNITED STATES; ADAPTATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; EVOLUTION; INTRODUCED SPECIES; PHYSIOLOGY; POACEAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

BROMUS TECTORUM; POA SECUNDA; POACEAE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BROMUS; INTRODUCED SPECIES; POACEAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79953306487     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018145     Document Type: Article

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