Journal article
Phenotypic selection on leaf water use efficiency and related ecophysiological traits for natural populations of desert sunflowers
Abstract
Plant water-use efficiency (WUE) is expected to affect plant fitness and thus be under natural selection in arid habitats. Although many natural population studies have assessed plant WUE, only a few related WUE to fitness. The further determination of whether selection on WUE is direct or indirect through functionally related traits has yielded no consistent results. For natural populations of two desert annual sunflowers, Helianthus anomalus …
Authors
Donovan LA; Dudley SA; Rosenthal DM; Ludwig F
Journal
Oecologia, Vol. 152, No. 1, pp. 13–25
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
5 2007
DOI
10.1007/s00442-006-0627-5
ISSN
0029-8549