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local adaptation
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Definition
An evolutionary process in which a population evolves to become more suited to its local environment through natural selection, resulting in higher fitness in the home environment compared to individuals from other locations
Related Terms (19)
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Publications (40)
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Adaptation and gene flow are insufficient to rescue a montane plant under climate change
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Herbivory and water availability interact to shape the adaptive landscape in the perennial forb, Boechera stricta
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An uphill grind for wild plant populations
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Local Adaptations and Fitness of Transplants in the Lewis Flax – Flax Rust Coevolutionary System
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Local Adaptations and Fitness of Transplants in the Lewis Flax – Flax Rust Coevolutionary System
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Patterns of genetic variation and local adaptation of a native herbivore to a lethal invasive plant
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Patterns of genetic variation and local adaptation of a native herbivore to a lethal invasive plant
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Combined Effects of Aridity and Herbivory on Plant Performance
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The Boechera model system for evolutionary ecology
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Resource availability alters fitness trade-offs: implications for evolution in stressful environments
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Climate change disrupts local adaptation and favours upslope migration
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Small spaces, big impacts: contributions of micro-environmental variation to population persistence under climate change
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Local adaption in <i>Boechera stricta</i> in the context of climate change
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Evaluating Critical Thermal Tolerances of Solitary Bees
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Heritable plant phenotypes track light and herbivory levels at fine spatial scales
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Identifying targets and agents of selection: Innovative methods to evaluate the processes that contribute to local adaptation
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Identifying targets and agents of selection: Innovative methods to evaluate the processes that contribute to local adaptation
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Climate Change Affects Boechera stricta Genotypes Through Local Maladaptation
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Young inversion with multiple linked QTLs under selection in a hybrid zone
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Plant-pollinator interactions under climate change: the use of spatial and temporal transplants
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Analyzing the effect of climate change on <i>Boechera stricta</i> seed germination and fitness along an elevational gradient
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Testing for the genetic basis of cold tolerance in a wild mustard
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Delving deeper: Questioning the decline of long-tongued bumble bees, long-tubed flowers and their mutualisms with climate change
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Morphological and physiological determinants of local adaptation to climate in Rocky Mountain butterflies
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Geographic variation in flowering phenology in Boechera stricta: testing for adaptive response to climate across the species range
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Microgeographic patterns of genetic divergence and adaptation across environmental gradients in <i>Boechera stricta</i>(Brassicaceae)
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Barriers to Gene Flow across a Light Gradient in Cardamine cordifolia.
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Rapid evolution and population divergence in response to environmental change in <i>Colias</i> butterlies
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Strong selection genome-wide enhances fitness tradeoffs across environments and episodes of selection
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The evolution of quantitative traits in complex environments
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Genetic variation in plant functional traits as drivers in arthropod community structure
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Genetic tradeoffs and conditional neutrality contribute to local adaptation
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Scale of plasticity and local adaptation in <i>Boechera stricta </i> along an altitudinal gradient
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Phenotypic plasticity and adaptive evolution contribute to advancing flowering phenology in response to climate change
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The effects of flowering phenology and plant fitness within and across a light quality gradient for a native mustard, <i>Cardamine cordifolia</i>
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Evolutionary and ecological responses to anthropogenic climate change
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Seasonal change in a pollinator community and the maintenance of style length variation in Mertensia fusiformis (Boraginaceae)
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Local adaptation to habitat-specific herbivory and light levels in <i>Cardamine cordifolia</i>
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The evolution of wing color: male mate choice opposes adaptive wing color divergence in <i>Colias</i> butterflies
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