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Flowering Plant Diversity
... growth - trees Adventitious roots Primary and adventitious roots Getting up into the light - adaptive radiation of the plant body Vegetation is stratified and the plant form and stature ... stature by several means. Flowering plants have invaded a range of extreme habitats by adaptive radiation, e.g. hydrophytes, halophytes, xerophytes. Flowering plants have evolved alternative modes of nutrition ...
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Baldwin Lab - UC Berkeley
... monophyletic group that underwent explosive ecological diversification following long-distance dispersal, much like an insular adaptive radiation and in strong contrast to previous ideas on evolutionary relationships within Cirsium. Ongoing research in ...
ucjeps.berkeley.edu

Drift Seeds and Drift Fruits
... Silver Sword Alliance, includes three genera and about 30 endemic species, an excellent example of adaptive radiation. One of the most amazing of all these Hawaiian endemics is the silver sword (Argyroxiphium ... with silvery hairs that reflect light and heat and provide insulation against the intense solar radiation and extreme aridity of this 10,000 foot (3,000 m) volcanic mountain. A silver ...
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Vegetative Terminology (Part 1)
... sword alliance that evolved from an ancestral tarweed (Asteraceae), the alulu is another example of adaptive radiation in the lobeliads. Unlike the silver swords, the lobeliads evolved from several ancestral introductions rather ...
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Botany online: Reproductive Isolation and Mechanisms of Reproduction
... Reproduction Prezygotic Barriers of Isolation Postzygotic Barriers of Isolation Groups of Related Species, Interspecific Hybrids, Adaptive Radiation Modes of Reproduction (Recombination Systems) Literature Some definitions to begin with: Sympatry: Phylogenetically closely related ...
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Welcome to University of Hawaii at Manoa Botany
... Sterling Keeley Cliff Morden Alison Sherwood George Wong Projects in the Systematics / Evolution Track include: Adaptive Radiation of the Hawaiian Silversword Alliance (Asteraceae: Madiinae) [Carr] Chromosome Evolution in Calycadenia (Asteraceae: Madiinae) [Carr ...
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Hawaiian silversword alliance, UH Botany
... that colonized Hawaii by way of long-distance dispersal from North America. More information on adaptive radiation, hybridization, and evolution of this group is linked here. For further information and photos related ...
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Book Reviews
... Checklist of the Genus Tillandsia Blooming Bromeliads Baensch, Ulrich and Ursula Bromeliaceae: Profile of an Adaptive Radiation Bromeliaceae of Venezuela Bromeliaceae III Bromeliads Bromeliads: A Cultural Manua Bromeliads for the Contemporary Garden ...
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BOOK REVIEW: THE BIOLOGY OF THE BROMELIADS
... not as comprehensive as Dr Benzing’s more recent book titled Bromeliaceae: Profile of an Adaptive Radiation, which was published in 2000. Readers seeking the most recent, and comprehensive, information on the ...
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epric101
... . Benzing and B.Bennett. Pp. 245–328 in D.H. Benzing. Bromeliaceae: Profile of an Adaptive Radiation. Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom. Bromeliads. Pp. 73–74 in N.M. Nadkarni and N ...
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