The importance of biotic interactions and local adaptation for plant response to environmental changes: Field evidence along an elevational gradient

Global Change Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1452-1460

  Grassein, Fabrice ^a,b   Lavorel, Sandra ^b   Till Bottraud, Irène ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ JOSEPH FOURIER   (France)

Author keywords

Biotic interactions; Elevational gradient; Environmental changes; Grassland; Local adaptation; Reciprocal transplantation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BIOTIC FACTOR; CLIMATE EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; GLOBAL CHANGE; GRASSLAND; PLANT; SURVIVAL; TRANSPLANTATION; WATER AVAILABILITY;

ADAPTATION; ALTITUDE; BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CYPERACEAE; ENVIRONMENT; FRANCE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; POACEAE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ALTITUDE; BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CYPERACEAE; ENVIRONMENT; FRANCE; POACEAE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84898475961     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12445     Document Type: Article

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