Unravelling the architecture of functional variability in wild populations of Polygonum viviparum L

Functional Ecology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 382-391

  Boucher, Florian C ^a   Thuiller, Wilfried ^a   Arnoldi, Cindy ^a   Albert, Cécile H ^a,b   Lavergne, Sébastien ^a  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alpine plants; Ecological niche; Functional traits; Intraspecific variation; Lines of least resistance; Phenotypic integration; Variance covariance matrix

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DICOTYLEDON; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FUNCTIONAL CHANGE; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; NICHE; PERENNIAL PLANT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; SPECIES RICHNESS; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; WILD POPULATION;

POLYGONUM; POLYGONUM VIVIPARUM;

EID: 84875633514     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12034     Document Type: Article

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