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Highly local environmental variability promotes intrapopulation divergence of quantitative traits: an example from tropical rain forest trees.
Annals of botany - 1 Oct 2013
Brousseau Louise, Bonal Damien, Cigna Jeremy, Scotti Ivan
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS: In habitat mosaics, plant populations face environmental heterogeneity over short geographical distances. Such steep environmental gradients can induce ecological divergence. Lowland rainforests of the Guiana Shield are characterized by sharp, short-distance environmental variations related to topography and soil characteristics (from waterlogged bottomlands on hydromorphic soils to...
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