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Trait differentiation and adaptation of plants along elevation gradients
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- Halbritter, Aud H. (author)
- Univ Bergen, Dept Biol Sci, Post Box 7803, N-5020 Bergen, Norway;ETH, Inst Integrat Biol, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Fior, Simone (author)
- ETH, Inst Integrat Biol, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Keller, Irene (author)
- Univ Bern, Dept Clin Res, Bern, Switzerland;Univ Bern, Swiss Inst Bioinformat, Bern, Switzerland
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- Billeter, Regula (author)
- ZHAW Wadenswil, Inst Nat Resource Sci, Wadenswil, Switzerland
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- Edwards, Peter J. (author)
- ETH, Inst Integrat Biol, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Holderegger, Rolf (author)
- ETH, Inst Integrat Biol, Zurich, Switzerland;Swiss Fed Res Inst Forest Snow & Landscape WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
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- Karrenberg, Sophie (author)
- Uppsala universitet,Växtekologi och evolution
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- Pluess, Andrea R. (author)
- Swiss Fed Res Inst Forest Snow & Landscape WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
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- Widmer, Alex (author)
- ETH, Inst Integrat Biol, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Alexander, Jake M. (author)
- ETH, Inst Integrat Biol, Zurich, Switzerland;Univ Lausanne, Dept Ecol & Evolut, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- 2018-04-20
- 2018
- English.
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In: Journal of Evolutionary Biology. - : Wiley. - 1010-061X .- 1420-9101. ; 31:6, s. 784-800
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- Studies of genetic adaptation in plant populations along elevation gradients in mountains have a long history, but there has until now been neither a synthesis of how frequently plant populations exhibit adaptation to elevation nor an evaluation of how consistent underlying trait differences across species are. We reviewed studies of adaptation along elevation gradients (i) from a meta-analysis of phenotypic differentiation of three traits (height, biomass and phenology) from plants growing in 70 common garden experiments; (ii) by testing elevation adaptation using three fitness proxies (survival, reproductive output and biomass) from 14 reciprocal transplant experiments; (iii) by qualitatively assessing information at the molecular level, from 10 genomewide surveys and candidate gene approaches. We found that plants originating from high elevations were generally shorter and produced less biomass, but phenology did not vary consistently. We found significant evidence for elevation adaptation in terms of survival and biomass, but not for reproductive output. Variation in phenotypic and fitness responses to elevation across species was not related to life history traits or to environmental conditions. Molecular studies, which have focussed mainly on loci related to plant physiology and phenology, also provide evidence for adaptation along elevation gradients. Together, these studies indicate that genetically based trait differentiation and adaptation to elevation are widespread in plants. We conclude that a better understanding of the mechanisms underlying adaptation, not only to elevation but also to environmental change, will require more studies combining the ecological and molecular approaches.
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- NATURVETENSKAP -- Biologi -- Botanik (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Biological Sciences -- Botany (hsv//eng)
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Biologi -- Evolutionsbiologi (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Biological Sciences -- Evolutionary Biology (hsv//eng)
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- altitude
- candidate loci
- cline
- common garden
- genomewide data
- reciprocal transplant experiment
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