In transplant experiments, closely-related sexual and asexual species both showed evidence of local adaptation.
Tag - local adaptation
Erin Zimmerman
Genetic variation in early fitness traits across European populations of silver birch
How will silver birch populations across Europe be affected by climate change?
William Salter
The importance of quantitative trait differentiation in habitat restoration
Successful restoration of habitats relies on the sourcing of seed appropriate to the restoration environment. The use of non-adapted genotypes can compromise the long-term success of restoration programmes if fitness of...
Contributions of microenvironmental variation to population persistence under climate change
The environment can vary at small spatial scales, so small that neighbouring plants in a natural population can grow with different resource levels and experience different degrees of competition. This fine-grained...
Plants from different climates can react to drought in similar ways
How do plants react when circumstances change? One method can be to evolve a local adaptation. Another can be be phenotypic plasticity, changing the shape of the plant to tackle a local problem. Silvia Matesanz and...
Alex Assiry
Simulating the effects of local adaptation and life history on the ability of plants to track climate shifts
Local adaptation is common but not universal in plants and results from the interplay of gene flow with natural selection. Gene flow can increase local genetic variation and population size, which boost a species’...
Parallel functional differentiation of an invasive annual plant on two continents
Broadly distributed species encompass populations spread across habitats that vary in their climatic, edaphic and biotic environmental characteristics. The success of broadly distributed species across a wide range of...
Altitudinal differentiation in water-repellency of bud-wrapping leaves
In rosette-forming plants, rosette leaves locate near the ground, and their upper surfaces are exposed, whereas the opposite surfaces are more exposed for leaves on flowering stems.
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Thermal acclimation of photosynthesis and dark respiration in white spruce
The results showed moderate thermal acclimation of respiration and no evidence for thermal acclimation of photosynthesis or local genetic adaptation for traits related to thermal acclimation.
Reciprocal sowing experiment shows local adaptation and phenotypic plasticity
Reciprocal sowing experiments along environmental gradients allow evaluating local adaptation and phenotypic plasticity as in situ mechanisms to cope with climate change. Sánchez et al. used this approach to infer the...
Intra-species ecological divergence in irises
Speciation is often described as a continuum, from minor divergence of populations to complete reproductive isolation between species. Within-species population divergence can shed light on the first steps of speciation...
Seed dormancy cycling and mortality in Arabidopsis thaliana
The contribution of variation in seed bank dynamics to local adaptation is not well studied. Postma et al. investigated the extent to which genetic and environmental factors affect dormancy cycling and mortality of...
Aridity-related stomatal differences in a South African shrub
Plants in arid environments often have predictably different phenotypes than those in moist environments. Within species, such trait–environment associations could indicate local adaptation, yet supporting evidence is...
Adaptive and neutral variation in Psilopeganum sinense
Natural selection and genetic drift are important evolutionary forces in determining genetic and phenotypic differentiation in plant populations.
