Adaptive differentiation of Festuca rubra along a climate gradient revealed by molecular markers and quantitative traits.

ABSTRACT: Species response to climate change is influenced by predictable (selective) and unpredictable (random) evolutionary processes. To understand how climate change will affect present-day species, it is necessary to assess their adaptive potential and distinguish it from the effects of random processes. This will allow predicting how different genotypes will respond to forecasted environmental change. Space for time substitution experiments are an elegant way to test the response of present day populations to climate variation in real time. Here we assess neutral and putatively adaptive variation in 11 populations of Festuca rubra situated along crossed gradients of temperature and moisture using molecular markers and phenotypic measurements, respectively. By comparing population differentiati

SUBMITTER: Stojanova B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5884518 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature