期刊
NEW PHYTOLOGIST
卷 197, 期 3, 页码 989-1001出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/nph.12060
关键词
abundant-centre hypothesis; environmental stress; evolutionary adaptive responses; life history strategy; local adaptation; marginal populations; plant-climate interactions; species distribution
资金
- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/C507837/1]
- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/C507837/1, NE/C507845/1] Funding Source: researchfish
Widely distributed species, such as the perennial plant Arabidopsis lyrata, face a range of environmental conditions across space, creating selective pressures for local evolutionary adaptation. The species' fragmented distribution may reduce gene flow, which could either reduce or increase adaptive potential. The substantial variation in phenotypic traits observed across this species' northwestern European range may reflect a combination of plastic responses to environmental conditions, evolutionary adaptation and nonadaptive genetic differentiation. We conducted multi-site common garden experiments to study differences in plant performance in core and marginal areas. Plants from eight source populations representing the species' full geographic and altitudinal range in northwestern Europe were planted out in Iceland, Sweden, Scotland and Wales. We found evidence of both strong plastic responses and apparently adaptive differentiation in performance. Most evidence for local adaptation was found at range margins, with the strongest effects on reproductive output. Both biotic and abiotic factors affected performance, especially at range margins. Performance of most plants was best in the Scottish and Swedish common garden sites, in the core of the species' distribution. Despite adaptations at range margins, the performance of the species declines at distributional limits, with extreme southern populations looking particularly vulnerable.
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