Rapid evolution towards heavy metal resistance by mountain birch around two subarctic copper–nickel smelters

• Published in: Journal of Evolutionary Biology
• Main Author: ERÄNEN, J. K.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2008
• Subjects: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Orlova; Subarctic
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2007.01491.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1420-9101.2007.01491.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2007.01491.x

Abstract Adaptations to pollution among long‐lived trees have rarely been documented, possibly because of their long reproductive cycles and the evolutionarily short timescales of anthropogenic pollution. Here, I present the results of a greenhouse experiment that suggest rapid evolutionary adaptati...