Demographic, developmental and life-history variation across altitude in Erysimum capitatum

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 99, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1237-1249

  Kim, Eunsuk ^a   Donohue, Kathleen ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alpine; Climate change; Demography; Elasticity; Iteroparity; Life history traits; Plant development; Semelparity

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; ALTITUDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEMOGRAPHY; DICOTYLEDON; ELEVATION; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MATURATION; MORPHOLOGY; MORTALITY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; POPULATION GROWTH; SEEDLING; SEMELPARITY; SOIL WATER;

COLORADO; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

ERYSIMUM; ERYSIMUM CAPITATUM;

EID: 80051779921     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2011.01831.x     Document Type: Article

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