Inbreeding Depression under Drought Stress in the Rare Endemic Echium wildpretii (Boraginaceae) on Tenerife, Canary Islands

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Sedlacek, Janosch ^a,d   Schmid, Bernhard ^a   Matthies, Diethart ^b   Albrecht, Matthias ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c AGROSCOPE RECKENHOLZ TÄNIKON RESEARCH STATION ART   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS POLLINATION; DROUGHT STRESS; ECHIUM; ECHIUM WILDPRETII; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FLOWER; GERMINATION; INBREEDING DEPRESSION; LIFE HISTORY; NONHUMAN; PLANT SEED; POPULATION SIZE; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SELFING; SPAIN; SURVIVAL RATE;

BORAGINACEAE; DROUGHTS; GERMINATION; POLLEN; SEEDS; SPAIN; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

ANIMALIA; BORAGINACEAE; ECHIUM WILDPRETII;

EID: 84868130706     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047415     Document Type: Article

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