Plant population differentiation and climate change: Responses of grassland species along an elevational gradient

Global Change Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 441-455

  Frei, Esther R ^a   Ghazoul, Jaboury ^a   Matter, Philippe ^a   Heggli, Martin ^b   Pluess, Andrea R ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b WSL INSTITUTE FOR SNOW AND AVALANCHE RESEARCH SLF   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Altitude; Climate; Common garden transplant experiment; Genetic differentiation; Local adaptation; Phenology; Phenotypic plasticity; Soil

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ELEVATION; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GRASSLAND; LOCAL ADAPTATION; PHENOLOGY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; POPULATION GENETICS;

ALPS; SWITZERLAND;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOVER; COMMON GARDEN TRANSPLANT EXPERIMENT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LOCAL ADAPTATION; PHENOLOGY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; POACEAE; RANUNCULACEAE; SOIL; SWITZERLAND;

ALTITUDE; CLIMATE; COMMON GARDEN TRANSPLANT EXPERIMENT; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; LOCAL ADAPTATION; PHENOLOGY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; SOIL;

ALTITUDE; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; POACEAE; RANUNCULUS; SOIL; SWITZERLAND; TRIFOLIUM;

EID: 84891654208     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12403     Document Type: Article

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