Local adaptation and phenotypic plasticity in two forest understorey herbs in response to forest management intensity.

ABSTRACT: Local adaptation is a common phenomenon that helps plant populations to adjust to broad-scale environmental heterogeneity. Given the strong effect of forest management on the understorey microenvironment and often long-term effects of forest management actions, it seems likely that understorey herbs may have locally adapted to the practiced management regime and induced environmental variation. We investigated the response of Anemone nemorosa and Milium effusum to forest management using a transplant experiment along a silvicultural management intensity gradient. Genets were sampled from sites with contrasting management intensities and transplanted sympatrically, near allopatrically and far allopatrically along the management intensity gradient to test for local adaptation a

SUBMITTER: Moller C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11752646 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature