The impact of global climate change on genetic diversity within populations and species

SU Pauls, C Nowak, M Bálint… - Molecular ecology, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Genetic diversity provides the basic substrate for evolution, yet few studies assess the
impacts of global climate change (GCC) on intraspecific genetic variation. In this review, we …

Common garden experiments as a dynamic tool for ecological studies of alpine plants and communities in northeastern North America

K Berend, K Haynes, CMD MacKenzie - Rhodora, 2019 - meridian.allenpress.com
Alpine areas make excellent research sites for investigating questions of plant ecology due
to harsh climatic filtering, compressed ecological/environmental gradients, limited species …

Genetic differentiation within multiple common grassland plants supports seed transfer zones for ecological restoration

W Durka, SG Michalski, KW Berendzen… - Journal of Applied …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Ecological restoration of grasslands is increasingly based on regional seeds derived from
predefined seed transfer zones. However, the degree and spatial pattern of genetic …

Intraspecific variation in stomatal traits, leaf traits and physiology reflects adaptation along aridity gradients in a South African shrub

JE Carlson, CA Adams, KE Holsinger - Annals of botany, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Aims Trait–environment relationships are commonly interpreted as
evidence for local adaptation in plants. However, even when selection analyses support this …

Intraspecific variation in Phragmites australis: Clinal adaption of functional traits and phenotypic plasticity vary with latitude of origin

L Ren, X Guo, S Liu, T Yu, W Guo, R Wang… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Widespread plant species generally have high intraspecific variation in functional traits,
which is reflected in their great variety of phenotypes. This variety can result from both …

Physiological, biochemical and proteomics analysis reveals the adaptation strategies of the alpine plant Potentilla saundersiana at altitude gradient of the …

L Ma, X Sun, X Kong, JV Galvan, X Li, S Yang… - Journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
This study presents an analysis of leave and rood morphology, biochemical and proteomics
approach as adaptation strategies of the alpine plant Potentilla saundersiana in an altitude …

Adaptive differentiation of traits related to resource use in a desert annual along a resource gradient

LC Brouillette, CM Mason, RY Shirk… - New …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Plant resource‐use traits are generally hypothesized to be adaptively differentiated for
populations distributed along resource gradients. Although nutrient limitations are expected …

Natural selection and neutral evolutionary processes contribute to genetic divergence in leaf traits across a precipitation gradient in the tropical oak Quercus oleoides

JA Ramírez‐Valiente, NJ Deacon, J Etterson… - Molecular …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The impacts of drought are expanding worldwide as a consequence of climate change.
However, there is still little knowledge of how species respond to long‐term selection in …

帽儿山17 个种源落叶松针叶的水分利用效率比较

全先奎, 王传宽 - 植物生态学报, 2015 - plant-ecology.com
研究环境变化下的树木水分利用效率对探讨森林生态系统碳水耦联关系及其对气候变化的响应
和适应对策具有重要意义. 落叶松(Larix gmelinii) 为我国北方森林的建群种之一 …

Evidence for adaptive phenotypic differentiation in Baltic Sea sticklebacks

J Defaveri, J Merilä - Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 2013 - academic.oup.com
The evidence for adaptive phenotypic differentiation in mobile marine species remains
scarce, partly due to the difficulty of obtaining quantitative genetic data to demonstrate the …