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Phenotypic selection favors missing trait combinations in coexisting annual plants.

The American naturalist - 1 Aug 2013

Kimball Sarah, Gremer Jennifer R, Huxman Travis E, Lawrence Venable D, Angert Amy L

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Trade-offs among traits are important for maintaining biodiversity, but the role of natural selection in their construction is not often known. It is possible that trade-offs reflect fundamental constraints, negative correlational selection, or directional selection operating on costly, redundant traits. In a Sonoran Desert community of winter annual plants, we have identified a trade-off between relative growth...

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PMID: 23852354
DOI: 10.1086/671058

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