Linking ecological niche models and common garden experiments to predict phenotypic differentiation in stressful environments: Assessing the adaptive value of marginal populations in an alpine plant

• Published in: Global change biology Vol. 28; no. 13; pp. 4143 - 4162
• Main Authors: Morente‐López, Javier, Kass, Jamie M., Lara‐Romero, Carlos, Serra‐Diaz, Josep M., Soto‐Correa, José Carmen, Anderson, Robert P., Iriondo, José M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.07.2022; Wiley; John Wiley and Sons Inc
• Subjects: Adaptation; alpine plants; Biodiversity; Cell differentiation; Changing environments; Climate change; Conservation; Desiccation; Differentiation (biology); Divergence; Ecological distribution; ecological niche models; Ecological niches; Environmental changes; Environmental conditions; environmental factors; environmental gradients; Environmental Sciences; Evapotranspiration; Experiments; Flowering; Gardens & gardening; heat; Heat resistance; High temperature; leaves; Life Sciences; marginal areas; Niches; Phenology; phenotype; phenotypic variation; physiology; Population genetics; Populations; response curves; Silene; Snowpack; Spain; species distribution models; spring; Stress (physiology); variance; Spain; ecological niche models; species distribution models; phenotypic variation; response curves; physiology; adaptation; marginal areas; environmental gradients; climate change

Environmental variation within a species’ range can create contrasting selective pressures, leading to divergent selection and novel adaptations. The conservation value of populations inhabiting environmentally marginal areas remains in debate and is closely related to the adaptive potential in chan...