Population-level genetic variation and climate change in a biodiversity hotspot.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Estimated future climate scenarios can be used to predict where hotspots of endemism may occur over the next century, but life history, ecological and genetic traits will be important in informing the varying responses within myriad taxa. Essential to predicting the consequences of climate change to individual species will be an understanding of the factors that drive genetic structure within and among populations. Here, I review the factors that influence the genetic structure of plant species in California, but are applicable elsewhere; existing levels of genetic variation, life history and ecological characteristics will affect the ability of an individual taxon to persist in the presence of anthropogenic change.

Factors influencing the distribution of genetic va

SUBMITTER: Schierenbeck KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5321061 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature