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Rapid Development of Adaptive, Climate-Driven Clinal Variation in Seed Mass in the Invasive Annual Forb Echium plantagineum L.

We examined adaptive clinal variation in seed mass among populations of an invasive annual species, Echium plantagineum, in response to climatic selection. We collected seeds from 34 field populations from a 1,000 km long temperature and rainfall gradient across the species' introduced range in...

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Autores principales: Konarzewski, Tara K., Murray, Brad R., Godfree, Robert C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3526602/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23284621
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0049000