Turning up the heat on the provenance debate: Testing the 'local is best' paradigm under heatwave conditions

Austral Ecology

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 600-611

  Hancock, Nola ^a   Hughes, Lesley ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Ecotype; Eucalyptus tereticornis; Intraspecific variation; Local adaptation; Themeda australis triandra

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOTYPE; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; EVERGREEN TREE; GRASS; GROWTH RATE; HERBIVORY; LOCAL ADAPTATION; NATIVE SPECIES; OPEN-TOP CHAMBER; PROPAGULE; PROVENANCE; REVEGETATION; TEMPERATURE TOLERANCE;

AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES; SYDNEY [NEW SOUTH WALES];

EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS TERETICORNIS; THEMEDA; THEMEDA AUSTRALIS; THEMEDA TRIANDRA;

EID: 84903942034     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: 14429993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/aec.12122     Document Type: Article

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