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Lagging adaptation to warming climate in Arabidopsis thaliana.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 3 Jun 2014
Wilczek Amity M, Cooper Martha D, Korves Tonia M, Schmitt Johanna
Abstract excerpt
If climate change outpaces the rate of adaptive evolution within a site, populations previously well adapted to local conditions may decline or disappear, and banked seeds from those populations will be unsuitable for restoring them. However, if such adaptational lag has occurred, immigrants from historically warmer climates will outperform natives and may provide genetic potential for evolutionary rescue. We...
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