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Plant Evolution in Extreme Environments

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Ecological Genetics and Evolution

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Extreme habitats have a fascination of their own. They are occupied by only a few very characteristic species, and they are easy to recognize ecologically and spatially. In extreme environments a single physical factor is usually dominating and other factors subsidiary. This makes it easy to understand what is going on, and to define the intensity of the factor. Extreme habitats are so distinctive that it is also easy to see where they begin and end. Because of this they have important advantages for the study of evolution.

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    Robert Creed

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Bradshaw, A.D. (1971). Plant Evolution in Extreme Environments. In: Creed, R. (eds) Ecological Genetics and Evolution. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0432-7_2

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