Translocation of an arctic seashore plant reveals signs of maladaptation to altered climatic conditions.

ABSTRACT: Ongoing anthropogenic climate change alters the local climatic conditions to which species may be adapted. Information on species' climatic requirements and their intraspecific variation is necessary for predicting the effects of climate change on biodiversity. We used a climatic gradient to test whether populations of two allopatric varieties of an arctic seashore herb (Primula nutans ssp. finmarchica) show adaptation to their local climates and how a future warmer climate may affect them. Our experimental set-up combined a reciprocal translocation within the distribution range of the species with an experiment testing the performance of the sampled populations in warmer climatic conditions south of their range. We monitored survival, size, and flowering over four growing se

SUBMITTER: Hallfors M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7682418 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature