Habitat fragmentation and adaptation: a reciprocal replant-transplant experiment among 15 populations of Lychnis flos-cuculi

• Published in: The Journal of ecology Vol. 96; no. 5; pp. 1056 - 1064
• Main Authors: Bowman, Gillianne, Perret, Catherine, Hoehn, Sophie, Galeuchet, David J., Fischer, Markus
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.09.2008; Blackwell Publishing; Blackwell Publishing Ltd; Blackwell Science
• Subjects: allee effect; Animal and plant ecology; Animal, plant and microbial ecology; Biological and medical sciences; Biological variation; Botany; Caryophyllaceae; common species; Conservation biology; Ecological conditions; Ecological genetics; Ecology; Ecosystems; environmental change; Environmental changes; Environmental quality; Flowers & plants; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; General aspects; Grasslands; Habitat fragmentation; habitat quality; Habitats; local adaptation; Lychnis; Lychnis flos-cuculi; microsatellite repeats; Plant Demography and Population Dynamics; Plant populations; Plants; Population ecology; Population genetics; Population number; Population size; reciprocal transplantation experiment; Silene flos-cuculi; Switzerland; Wetland ecology; Switzerland; common species; Allee effect; environmental change; Population number; Transplantation; Lychnis flos-cuculi; Caryophyllaceae; Fragmentation; reciprocal transplantation experiment; Silene flos-cuculi; local adaptation; Dicotyledones; Angiospermae; Environment; Population size; habitat quality; Spermatophyta; Habitat; Silene; Environmental monitoring; Population density; Adaptation; Environment quality

1. Habitat fragmentation and variation in habitat quality can both affect plant performance, but their effects have rarely been studied in combination. We thus examined plant performance in response to differences in habitat quality for a species subject to habitat fragmentation, the common but decl...