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Transgenerational effects of global environmental change: long-term CO(2) and nitrogen treatments influence offspring growth response to elevated CO(2).
Oecologia - 1 Nov 2008
Lau Jennifer A, Peiffer Jill, Reich Peter B, Tiffin Peter
Abstract excerpt
Global environmental changes can have immediate impacts on plant growth, physiology, and phenology. Long-term effects that are only observable after one or more generations are also likely to occur. These transgenerational effects can result either from maternal environmental effects or from evolutionary responses to novel selection pressures and are important because they may alter the ultimate ecological impact...
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