Increased Phenotypic Plasticity to Climate May Have Boosted the Invasion Success of Polyploid Centaurea stoebe

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Hahn, Min A ^a   van Kleunen, Mark ^b   Müller Schärer, Heinz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABIOTIC STRESS; ARTICLE; ASTERACEAE; BIOMASS; CENTAUREA STOEBE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTYPE; DIPLOIDY; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; EUROPE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; INVASIVE SPECIES; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; SPECIES INVASION; TETRAPLOIDY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CENTAUREA; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; EUROPE; GENETIC VARIATION; INTRODUCED SPECIES; NORTH AMERICA; PHENOTYPE; POLYPLOIDY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOIL;

ASTERACEAE; CENTAUREA STOEBE;

EID: 84869786704     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050284     Document Type: Article

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