Leaf morphology shift linked to climate change

Biology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 882-886

  Guerin, Greg R ^a   Wen, Haixia ^a,b   Lowe, Andrew J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b CHONGQING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c Department of Environment and Natural Resources ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptive shifts; Altitude gradient; Climate change; Dodonaea viscosa; Latitude gradient; Leaf morphology

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ALTITUDINAL ZONATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; HERBARIUM; LEAF AREA; LEAF MORPHOLOGY; MEDICINAL PLANT; MORPHOLOGY; PHENOLOGY; PROVENANCE; SPECIMEN BANK;

ADELAIDE GEOSYNCLINE; AUSTRALIA; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

DODONAEA VISCOSA;

EID: 84866681818     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2012.0458     Document Type: Article

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