Plant domestication through an ecological lens

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 463-469

  Milla, Rubén ^a   Osborne, Colin P ^b   Turcotte, Martin M ^c   Violle, Cyrille ^d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

Author keywords

Constraints; Cultivation; Domestication; Ecology; Natural selection; Phenotype

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ARCHAEOLOGY; CROP PLANT; CULTIVATION; DOMESTICATION; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; FITNESS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NATURAL SELECTION; PHENOTYPE; PLANT COMMUNITY;

CROP; ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; PHENOTYPE; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; ECOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL PHENOMENA; GENETIC FITNESS; PHENOTYPE; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84940467339     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2015.06.006     Document Type: Review

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