Out in the cold – how big and how old? Genetic fingerprinting reveals long‐lived individuals withstand climatic oscillations in the arctic‐alpine

• Published in: Molecular Ecology
• Main Author: MILLER, ALLISON
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2012
• Subjects: Arctic; Endeavour; Climate change; Dryas octopetala; Salix herbacea
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294x.2012.05467.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1365-294X.2012.05467.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05467.x

In long‐lived, clonally reproducing species, assessing organism size is a nontrivial endeavour because each genetically distinct entity (genet) may comprise multiple modular units (ramets). Attributes of clonally reproducing populations, such as genet size, longevity and clonal diversity (the number...