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common garden experiment (Brassicaceae)

Subcategory: climate adaptation
Papers: 34 | Mentions: 48

Local Knowledge Graph (41 entities)

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Description

A large-scale reciprocal transplant experiment across five elevational gardens with factorial snow and temperature manipulations to test local adaptation and evolutionary rescue potential under climate change scenarios.

Typical Equipment

  • Open-top chambers
  • Snow removal tools
  • Temperature monitoring equipment
  • Transplant tools

Output Measurements

  • fitness components
  • survival rates
  • growth rates
  • fecundity
  • stochastic lambda

Papers Using This Protocol (34)

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Increasing aridity may threaten the maintenance of a plant defence polymorphism

2025Ecology Lettersusing
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Adaptation and gene flow are insufficient to rescue a montane plant under climate change

2025Scienceintroducing
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Herbivory and water availability interact to shape the adaptive landscape in the perennial forb, Boechera stricta

2025Evolutionusing
other

An uphill grind for wild plant populations

2025Scienceusing
student_paper

Local Adaptations and Fitness of Transplants in the Lewis Flax – Flax Rust Coevolutionary System

2024introducing
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Ecological factors influence balancing selection on leaf chemical profiles of a wildflower

2021Nature Ecology & Evolutionusing
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Climate change disrupts local adaptation and favours upslope migration

2020Ecology Lettersintroducing
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Climate change shifts natural selection and the adaptive potential of the perennial forb <i>Bochera stricta</i> in the Rocky Mountians

2019Evolutionusing
student_paper

Investigating the relationship between plant morphology, density, and herbivory of <i>Thlaspi</i>

2019introducing
article

Transgenerational and within-generation plasticity in response to climate change: insights from a manipulative field experiment across an elevational gradient

2018Am. Nat.introducing
student_paper

The Relationship between Soil Properties and Variation in the Morphology and Phenology of non-native mustard plant <i>Thlaspi arvense</i> in Subalpine Meadows

2018introducing
student_paper

The Effect of Climate Change on Plant Communities in the Rocky Mountains: How floral traits differ along an elevational gradient and in reciprocally transplanted communities

2018using
student_paper

Local adaption in <i>Boechera stricta</i> in the context of climate change

2018using
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Heritable plant phenotypes track light and herbivory levels at fine spatial scales

2018Oecologiaintroducing
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Ecological causes and consequences of flower color polymorphism in a self pollinating plant (<i>Boechera stricta</i>)

2018New Phytologistusing
student_paper

Genetic basis of plant-insect interactions: insect recruitment to <i>Boechera stricta</i>

2017using
student_paper

The maintenance of flower colour polymorphism in self-pollinating <i>Boechera stricta</i>

2017using
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Integrating viability and fecundity selection to illuminate the adaptive nature of genetic clines

2017Evolution Lettersusing
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Plant-pollinator interactions under climate change: the use of spatial and temporal transplants

2017Applications in Plant Sciencesusing
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Effects of Plant Diversity on Selection for Insect Resistance Traits in <i>Boechera stricta</i>

2016using
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Analyzing the effect of climate change on <i>Boechera stricta</i> seed germination and fitness along an elevational gradient

2016introducing
student_paper

Testing for the genetic basis of cold tolerance in a wild mustard

2016using
student_paper

Geographic variation in flowering phenology in Boechera stricta: testing for adaptive response to climate across the species range

2015using
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Plasticity in functional traits in the context of climate change: A case study of the subalpine forb Boechera stricta (Brassicaceae)

2015Global Change Biologyusing
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Microgeographic patterns of genetic divergence and adaptation across environmental gradients in <i>Boechera stricta</i>(Brassicaceae)

2015The American Naturalistusing
student_paper

Trichome density differences in Boechera stricta across an elevational gradient.

2014using
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Strong selection genome-wide enhances fitness tradeoffs across environments and episodes of selection

2014Evolutionusing
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The evolution of quantitative traits in complex environments

2014Heredityusing
student_paper

Genetic variation in plant functional traits as drivers in arthropod community structure

2013using
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Genetic tradeoffs and conditional neutrality contribute to local adaptation

2013Molecular Ecologyusing
student_paper

Scale of plasticity and local adaptation in <i>Boechera stricta </i> along an altitudinal gradient

2013using
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Life history QTLs and natural selection on flowering time in <i></i>Boechera stricta<i></i>, a perennial relative of <i></i>Arabidopsis<i></i>

2011Evolutionusing
student_paper

Local adaptation to habitat-specific herbivory and light levels in <i>Cardamine cordifolia</i>

2011using
student_paper

Hybridization between the invasives <i>Tragopogon pratensis</i> and <i>T. dubius</i> in the Gunnison Valley

2011introducing