Conserved thermal performance curves across the geographic range of a gametophytic fern.

ABSTRACT: Species-level responses to environmental change depend on the collective responses of their constituent populations and the degree to which populations are specialized to local conditions. Manipulative experiments in common-garden settings make it possible to test for population variation in species' responses to specific climate variables, including those projected to shift as the climate changes in the future. While this approach is being applied to a variety of plant taxa to evaluate their responses to climate change, these studies are heavily biased towards seed-bearing plant species. Given several unique morphological and physiological traits, fern species may exhibit very different responses from angiosperms and gymnosperms. Here, we tested the hypothesis that previously detected pop

SUBMITTER: Chambers SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6185718 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature