Disparate relatives: Life histories vary more in genera occupying intermediate environments

Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 283-301

  Hermant, Marie ^a,b   Hennion, Françoise ^a   Bartish, Igor V ^c   Yguel, Benjamin ^a   Prinzing, Andreas ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b Univ Lille   (France)

^c INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

^d WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Abiotic environmental gradients; Angiosperms; Clades; Dated phylogeny; Life history traits; Regional trait variability

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; DATA SET; DIVERGENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PHYLOGENY; PLANT COMMUNITY; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SEED SIZE; TOLERANCE;

CENTRAL EUROPE;

MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 84863817822     PISSN: 14338319     EISSN: 16180437     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ppees.2012.02.001     Document Type: Article

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