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TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE
Volume 17, Issue 5, Pages 271-281Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2012.01.005
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- National Science Foundation [DEB-0425903, DEB-0816675]
- Science Foundation Arizona
- Division Of Environmental Biology
- Direct For Biological Sciences [0816675] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Div Of Biological Infrastructure
- Direct For Biological Sciences [1126840] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Community-level genetic specificity results when individual genotypes or populations of the same species support different communities. Our review of the literature shows that genetic specificity exhibits both life and afterlife effects; it is a widespread phenomenon occurring in diverse taxonomic groups, aquatic to terrestrial ecosystems, and species-poor to species-rich systems. Such specificity affects species interactions, evolution, ecosystem processes and leads to community feedbacks on the performance of the individuals expressing the traits. Thus, genetic specificity by communities appears to be fundamentally important, suggesting that specificity is a major driver of the biodiversity and stability of the world's ecosystems.
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