Development on drought-stressed host plants affects life history, flight morphology and reproductive output relative to landscape structure

Evolutionary Applications

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 66-75

  Gibbs, Melanie ^a,b   Van Dyck, Hans ^b   Breuker, Casper J ^c  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^c OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Climate change; Life history evolution; Phenotypic plasticity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857069934     PISSN: 17524563     EISSN: 17524571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-4571.2011.00209.x     Document Type: Article

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