The ubiquity of phenotypic plasticity in plants: A synthesis

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 5, Issue 16, 2015, Pages 3389-3400

  Palacio López, Kattia ^a   Beckage, Brian ^a   Scheiner, Samuel ^b   Molofsky, Jane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive plasticity; Canalization; Life history traits; Local adaptation; Morphological traits; Reciprocal transplant studies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939465173     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.1603     Document Type: Article

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