The floral morphospace - a modern comparative approach to study angiosperm evolution

New Phytologist

Volumn 204, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 841-853

  Chartier, Marion ^a   Jabbour, Florian ^b   Gerber, Sylvain ^c   Mitteroecker, Philipp ^a   Sauquet, Hervé ^d   Von Balthazar, Maria ^a   Staedler, Yannick ^a   Crane, Peter R ^e   Schönenberger, Jürg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^e Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

Disparity; Fitness landscape; Floral structure; Morphology; Morphospace; Multivariate statistics; Pollination syndrome

Indexed keywords

MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANGIOSPERM; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FACTUAL DATABASE; FLOWER; IMAGE PROCESSING; PHYSIOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROCEDURES; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANGIOSPERMS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ECOLOGY; FLOWERS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84911999566     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.12969     Document Type: Article

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