The Effects of Competitive Context on Shade Avoidance Syndrome Evolution in Impatiens Capensis

Competition plays a fundamental role in structuring ecological communities, and is a particularly important interaction for sessile organisms such as plants (Goldberg & Fleetwood 1987; Tilman 1994). To mitigate the negative effects of competition on fitness, plants can alter their phenotypes and...

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Main Author: McGoey, Brechann
Other Authors: Stinchcombe, John
Language:en_ca
Published: 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/18912