Phylogeny strongly drives seed dormancy and quality in a climatically buffered hotspot for plant endemism

Annals of Botany

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 267-277

  Dayrell, Roberta L C ^a   Garcia, Queila S ^a   Negreiros, Daniel ^b   Baskin, Carol C ^c,d   Baskin, Jerry M ^c   Silveira, Fernando A O ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b Instituto de Educação Continuada   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Campo rupestre; Cerrado; Community; Ecophylogenetics; Embryoless seeds; Evolutionarily stable strategy; OCBIL; P deficient soils; Refugia; Regeneration ecology; Rupestrian grassland; Seed viability

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; BIODIVERSITY; CERRADO; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENDEMISM; EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GRASSLAND; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; LONG-TERM CHANGE; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; REFUGIUM; REGENERATION; SEED DORMANCY; VEGETATION TYPE; VIABILITY;

BRAZIL;

MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

ANGIOSPERM; DORMANCY; ECOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED;

ECOLOGY; MAGNOLIOPSIDA; PHYLOGENY; PLANT DORMANCY; SEEDS;

EID: 85014949780     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcw163     Document Type: Article

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