A field experiment demonstrating plant life-history evolution and its eco-evolutionary feedback to seed predator populations

American Naturalist

Volumn 181, Issue SUPPL., 2013, Pages

  Agrawal, Anurag A ^a   Johnson, Marc T J ^b   Hastings, Amy P ^a   Maron, John L ^c  

^a Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Field experiment; Flowering phenology; Longevity; Natural selection; Plant resistance; Plant herbivore interactions; Rapid evolution

Indexed keywords

FIELD SURVEY; GENETIC MARKER; HERB; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; LONGEVITY; NATURAL SELECTION; PHENOLOGY; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; SEED PREDATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; EVENING PRIMROSE; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HERBIVORY; MOTH; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; POPULATION DENSITY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ECOSYSTEM; GENOTYPE; HERBIVORY; MOTHS; OENOTHERA BIENNIS; POPULATION DENSITY; SEEDS;

HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; OENOTHERA; OENOTHERA BIENNIS;

EID: 84876347056     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/666727     Document Type: Article

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