Clinal adaptation and adaptive plasticity in Artemisia californica: Implications for the response of a foundation species to predicted climate change

Global Change Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2454-2466

  Pratt, Jessica D ^a   Mooney, Kailen A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Artemisia; Clinal adaptation; Common garden; Environmental variability; Latitudinal gradients; Phenotypic plasticity; Precipitation; Resource gradients

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ADAPTATION; ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL CHANGE; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SHRUB;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ARTEMISIA; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLINAL ADAPTATION; COMMON GARDEN; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LATITUDINAL GRADIENTS; PHENOTYPE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRECIPITATION; RESOURCE GRADIENTS; UNITED STATES;

ARTEMISIA; CLINAL ADAPTATION; COMMON GARDEN; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABILITY; LATITUDINAL GRADIENTS; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PRECIPITATION; RESOURCE GRADIENTS;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ARTEMISIA; CALIFORNIA; CLIMATE CHANGE; PHENOTYPE; RAIN;

ARTEMISIA; ARTEMISIA CALIFORNICA;

EID: 84880135218     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12199     Document Type: Article

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