Population-Level Differentiation in Growth Rates and Leaf Traits in Seedlings of the Neotropical Live Oak Quercus oleoides Grown under Natural and Manipulated Precipitation Regimes

Population-Level Differentiation in Growth Rates and Leaf Traits in Seedlings of the Neotropical Live Oak Quercus oleoides Grown under Natural and Manipulated Precipitation Regimes

Widely distributed species are normally subjected to spatial heterogeneity in environmental conditions. In sessile organisms like plants, adaptive evolution and phenotypic plasticity of key functional traits are the main mechanisms through which species can respond to environmental heterogeneity and...

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Main Authors: Jose A. Ramírez-Valiente, Alyson Center, Jed P. Sparks, Kimberlee L. Sparks, Julie R. Etterson, Timothy Longwell, George Pilz, Jeannine Cavender-Bares
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Plant Science
Subjects:
local adaptation
phenotypic plasticity
ecotypes
leaf economics spectrum
Quercus oleoides
water stress
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpls.2017.00585/full

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