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niche conservatism

Scope: evolution
Papers: 1 | Mentions: 1

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Definition

The tendency for species to retain ancestral ecological requirements rather than evolving new ones

Publications (1)

student_paper

The impact of climate change on Rocky Mountain plant communities: Differences in floral trait along an elevational gradient of transplanted communities

2019tested

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phenological mismatch

phenomenon1 shared paper

phenotypic plasticity

process1 shared paper

climate change experiments

methodology1 shared paper

interaction turnover

metric1 shared paper

elevational gradients

framework1 shared paper

floral morphology

measurement1 shared paper