A natural heating experiment : Phenotypic and genotypic responses of plant phenology to geothermal soil warming
Under global warming, the survival of many populations of sedentary organisms in seasonal environments will largely depend on their ability to cope with warming in situ by means of phenotypic plasticity or adaptive evolution. This is particularly true in high‐latitude environments, where current gro...
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ftstockholmuniv:oai:DiVA.org:su-164153 2023-05-15T16:49:10+02:00 A natural heating experiment : Phenotypic and genotypic responses of plant phenology to geothermal soil warming Valdés, Alicia Marteinsdóttir, Bryndís Ehrlén, Johan 2019 application/pdf http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-164153 https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14525 eng eng Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för ekologi, miljö och botanik Global Change Biology, 1354-1013, 2019, 25:3, s. 954-962 orcid:0000-0001-9281-2871 orcid:0000-0001-8539-8967 http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-164153 doi:10.1111/gcb.14525 ISI:000459456700014 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess climatic variation geothermal ecosystems Iceland local adaptation microclimate phenotypic plasticity phenotypic selection plant phenology Ecology Ekologi Article in journal info:eu-repo/semantics/article text 2019 ftstockholmuniv https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14525 2023-02-23T21:43:11Z Under global warming, the survival of many populations of sedentary organisms in seasonal environments will largely depend on their ability to cope with warming in situ by means of phenotypic plasticity or adaptive evolution. This is particularly true in high‐latitude environments, where current growing seasons are short, and expected temperature increases large. In such short‐growing season environments, the timing of growth and reproduction is critical to survival. Here, we use the unique setting provided by a natural geothermal soil warming gradient (Hengill geothermal area, Iceland) to study the response of Cerastium fontanum flowering phenology to temperature. We hypothesized that trait expression and phenotypic selection on flowering phenology are related to soil temperature, and tested the hypothesis that temperature‐driven differences in selection on phenology have resulted in genetic differentiation using a common garden experiment. In the field, phenology was related to soil temperature, with plants in warmer microsites flowering earlier than plants at colder microsites. In the common garden, plants responded to spring warming in a counter‐gradient fashion; plants originating from warmer microsites flowered relatively later than those originating from colder microsites. A likely explanation for this pattern is that plants from colder microsites have been selected to compensate for the shorter growing season by starting development at lower temperatures. However, in our study we did not find evidence of variation in phenotypic selection on phenology in relation to temperature, but selection consistently favoured early flowering. Our results show that soil temperature influences trait expression and suggest the existence of genetically based variation in flowering phenology leading to counter‐gradient local adaptation along a gradient of soil temperatures. An important implication of our results is that observed phenotypic responses of phenology to global warming might often be a combination of ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland Stockholm University: Publications (DiVA) Hengill ENVELOPE(-21.306,-21.306,64.078,64.078) Global Change Biology 25 3 954 962 |
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Under global warming, the survival of many populations of sedentary organisms in seasonal environments will largely depend on their ability to cope with warming in situ by means of phenotypic plasticity or adaptive evolution. This is particularly true in high‐latitude environments, where current growing seasons are short, and expected temperature increases large. In such short‐growing season environments, the timing of growth and reproduction is critical to survival. Here, we use the unique setting provided by a natural geothermal soil warming gradient (Hengill geothermal area, Iceland) to study the response of Cerastium fontanum flowering phenology to temperature. We hypothesized that trait expression and phenotypic selection on flowering phenology are related to soil temperature, and tested the hypothesis that temperature‐driven differences in selection on phenology have resulted in genetic differentiation using a common garden experiment. In the field, phenology was related to soil temperature, with plants in warmer microsites flowering earlier than plants at colder microsites. In the common garden, plants responded to spring warming in a counter‐gradient fashion; plants originating from warmer microsites flowered relatively later than those originating from colder microsites. A likely explanation for this pattern is that plants from colder microsites have been selected to compensate for the shorter growing season by starting development at lower temperatures. However, in our study we did not find evidence of variation in phenotypic selection on phenology in relation to temperature, but selection consistently favoured early flowering. Our results show that soil temperature influences trait expression and suggest the existence of genetically based variation in flowering phenology leading to counter‐gradient local adaptation along a gradient of soil temperatures. An important implication of our results is that observed phenotypic responses of phenology to global warming might often be a combination of ... |
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A natural heating experiment : Phenotypic and genotypic responses of plant phenology to geothermal soil warming |
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A natural heating experiment : Phenotypic and genotypic responses of plant phenology to geothermal soil warming |
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