Climate envelope modelling reveals intraspecific relationships among flowering phenology, niche breadth and potential range size in Arabidopsis thaliana

Ecology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 769-777

  Banta, Joshua A ^a   Ehrenreich, Ian M ^b   Gerard, Silvia ^c   Chou, Lucy ^d   Wilczek, Amity ^e   Schmitt, Johanna ^f   Kover, Paula X ^g   Purugganan, Michael D ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT TYLER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e Deep Springs College   (United States)

^f BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^h NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; Climate envelope; Climate envelope modelling; Climate niche; Genetic diversity; Geographical distribution; Niche breadth; Niche modelling; Niche width; Potential range size

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; COLONIZATION; DICOTYLEDON; FLOWERING; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; MACROECOLOGY; NICHE BREADTH; PHENOLOGY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; RANGE SIZE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

ADAPTATION; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; FLOWER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ARABIDOPSIS; CLIMATE; FLOWERS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; PHENOTYPE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 84863472111     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2012.01796.x     Document Type: Article

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