Demographic fate of Arabidopsis thaliana cohorts of autumn- and spring-germinated plants along an altitudinal gradient

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1009-1018

  Picó, F Xavier ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Altitude; Clinal variation; Cohort dynamics; Fecundity; Life cycle; Plant population and community dynamics; Survival; Therophytes

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ALTITUDINAL ZONATION; ANNUAL PLANT; AUTUMN; CLINE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; DATA SET; DEMOGRAPHY; DICOTYLEDON; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FECUNDITY; GERMINATION; GLOBAL WARMING; LIFE CYCLE; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NATURAL SELECTION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPRING (SEASON); SURVIVAL;

SPAIN;

EID: 84862570037     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2012.01979.x     Document Type: Article

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