Adaptive responses reveal contemporary and future ecotypes in a desert shrub

Ecological Applications

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 413-427

  Richardson, Bryce A ^a   Kitchen, Stanley G ^a   Pendleton, Rosemary L ^a   Pendleton, Burton K ^a   Germino, Matthew J ^b   Rehfeldt, Gerald E ^c   Meyer, Susan E ^a  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^b FOREST AND RANGELAND ECOSYSTEM SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Assisted migration; Blackbrush; Climate change; Coleogyne ramosissima; Ecological restoration; Seed transfer zones

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARIDITY; CARBON ISOTOPE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLINE; DESERT; ECOREGION; ECOTYPE; GENETIC VARIATION; GROWTH RATE; MIGRATION; MORTALITY; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SHRUB;

COLORADO PLATEAU; MOJAVE DESERT; UNITED STATES;

WATER;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; ROSACEAE; TEMPERATURE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; ROSACEAE; TEMPERATURE; WATER;

EID: 84899539330     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/13-0587.1     Document Type: Article

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