Rapid evolution towards heavy metal resistance by mountain birch around two subarctic copper–nickel smelters
Abstract Adaptations to pollution among long‐lived trees have rarely been documented, possibly because of their long reproductive cycles and the evolutionarily short timescales of anthropogenic pollution. Here, I present the results of a greenhouse experiment that suggest rapid evolutionary adaptati...
Published in: | Journal of Evolutionary Biology |
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Language: | English |
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Wiley
2008
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Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2007.01491.x https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1420-9101.2007.01491.x https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2007.01491.x |