The case for character displacement in plants

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 862-875

  Beans, Carolyn M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecological character displacement; Niche differentiation; Plant plant interactions; Reproductive character displacement

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896261128     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.978     Document Type: Review

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