Adaptation to Seasonal Drought in Two Closely Related Species of Neotropical Costus (Costaceae)
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-2019
Abstract
Seasonal drought has been shown to greatly influence the distributions and species composition of plants in tropical rain forests. By conducting a series of field, greenhouse, and growth chamber experiments, we examined how Costus villosissimus, a forest edge species, has adapted to drought and differentiated from C. allenii, its closely related species in the understory. We hypothesize that delayed seed germination and high drought tolerance may lead to habitat differentiation and thus reproductive isolation between closely related plant species in the tropics.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.12645
Recommended Citation
Chen, G. & Schemske, D.W. (2019). Adaptation to seasonal drought in two closely related species of Neotropical Costus (Costaceae). Biotropica, 51(3), 311-315. https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.12645 Please note that the Recommended Citation may not be appropriate for your discipline. For help with other citation styles, please visit http://libguides.misericordia.edu/citationguide.