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SUBMITTER: Siemens DH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3856735 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Siemens David H DH Haugen Riston R
Ecology and evolution 20131005 13
Because transplant experiments show that performance usually decreases across species range boundaries, some range limits might develop from factors and processes that prevent adaptation to stressful environments. Here, we determined whether an ecological cost of plant defense involving stress associated with changes in the local plant community may contribute to range limit development in the upland mustard species Boechera stricta. In a common garden experiment of 499 B. stricta plants, perfor ...[more]