Complex Responses to Climate Warming of Arctic-Alpine Plant Populations From Different Geographic Provenance.

ABSTRACT: The distribution of 'cold-adapted' plant species is expected to undergo severe range loss in the near future. Species distribution models predicting species' future distribution often do not integrate species ability to respond to environmental factors through genetic traits or phenotypic plasticity. This especially applies to arctic-alpine species whose present-day range is strongly fragmented because of the cyclic vicissitudes they experienced during the Ice Age. We cultivated plants from four European populations of the arctic-alpine species Viscaria alpina from different geographic provenances. Two of the populations were from northern high-latitude regions in Scandinavia; the remaining two populations were from southern mid-latitude mountains. In both areas, one population was

SUBMITTER: Brancaleoni L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11922575 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature