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Clinal versus disruptive latitudinal variation in fruit traits of a South American mistletoe.
Oecologia - 1 Dec 2022
Amico Guillermo C, di Virgilio Agustina, Schmeda-Hirschmann Guillermo, Aizen Marcelo A
Abstract excerpt
Fruit traits have historically been interpreted as plant adaptations to their seed dispersers. On the other hand, different environmental factors, which vary spatially and temporally, can shape fruit-trait variation. The mistletoe Tristerix corymbosus has a latitudinal distribution along the South American Pacific rim that encompasses two different biomes, the matorral of central Chile and the temperate forest...
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