The New phytologist
Canalized to heat, plastic to cold: adaptive coordination of leaf and seed strategies in populations spanning an elevational gradient.
Cleber J N Chaves, Danilo U Tavares, Isabella V Lemos-Silva, João P S P Bento, Henrique Vilela-Bianchini, Paulo Aecyo, Tami C Cacossi, Marília M Tavares, Gabriel P Sabino, Vitor de A Kamimura, Wagner L Dos Santos, Lucas N Gonçalves, Karina T Silva, Juliana L S Mayer, Rafael V Ribeiro
Published: 202610.1111/nph.70912
Abstract
In tropical mountains, surviving temperature extremes demands finely tuned strategies. We investigated how populations of the bromeliad Pitcairnia flammea across a 2200 m elevational gradient balance genetic canalization and plasticity, and whether t…
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