On the capacity for rapid adaptation and plastic responses to herbivory and intraspecific competition in insular populations of Plectritis congesta

• Published in: Evolutionary applications Vol. 15; no. 5; pp. 804 - 816
• Main Authors: Skaien, Cora L., Arcese, Peter
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.05.2022; John Wiley and Sons Inc; Wiley
• Subjects: Adaptation; Browsing; Competition; Endangered & extinct species; Evolution & development; evolvability; Fecundity; Flowering; Flowers & plants; Fruits; Gene flow; genetic variance; Genotype & phenotype; Herbivory; Islands; local adaptation; migration‐selection balance; Morphology; Natural selection; Original; Phenology; Phenotypes; Phenotypic plasticity; Plant populations; Plectritis congesta; Population growth; Spatial heterogeneity; Species extinction; ungulate herbivory; Ungulates; migration‐selection balance; evolvability; local adaptation; phenotypic plasticity; ungulate herbivory; genetic variance

A capacity for rapid adaptation should enhance the persistence of populations subject to temporal and spatial heterogeneity in natural selection, but examples from nature remain scarce. Plectritis congesta (Caprifoliaceae) is a winter annual that exhibits local adaptation to browsing by ungulates an...