Tissue elastic properties of eight Hawaiian Dubautia species that differ in habitat and diploid chromosome number

Author:

Robichaux, Robert H., Canfield, Joan E.

Title:

Tissue elastic properties of eight Hawaiian Dubautia species that differ in habitat and diploid chromosome number

Periodical:

Oecologia

Year:

1985

Volume:

66

Pages:

77-80

Subject:

Dubautia

Summary:

Twenty-one endemic Hawaiian species of Dubautia (Compositae) grow in habitats as varied as exposed lava, dry scrub, dry woodland, mesic forest, wet forest, and bog that encompass a wide array of moisture environments and also differ in diploid chromosomal numbers. This ecological and chromosomal variation is paralleled by significant interspeclfic variation in tissue elastic properties. As a result, the pattern of interspecific variation in the tissue elastic properties among several Dubautia species were examined in this study. The additional species were selected in a manner that encompassed most of the ecological and chromosomal variation that is present within the genus. Also studied were the patterns of altitudinal and seasonal variations of the properties in two of the Dubautia species.

Label:

Botany

URL:

http://cletus.uhh.hawaii.edu:2074/10.1007/BF00378555

Date:

April 1985

Collection:

Periodicals