Assessing local adaptation vs. plasticity under different resource conditions in seedlings of a dominant boreal tree species.

AoB Plants · 2018 · PMC5811874 · PMID 29479406

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Seedlings from Prince Albert (the southernmost provenance) were always largest in height, biomass and root length measurements, with seedling size exhibiting a decreasing trend moving northward ( Fig. 4 ).

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