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The effects of phenotypic plasticity and local adaptation on forecasts of species range shifts under climate change.
Ecology letters - 1 Nov 2014
Valladares Fernando, Matesanz Silvia, Guilhaumon François, Araújo Miguel B, Balaguer Luis, Benito-Garzón Marta, Cornwell Will, Gianoli Ernesto, van Kleunen Mark, Naya Daniel E, Nicotra Adrienne B, Poorter Hendrik, Zavala Miguel A
Abstract excerpt
Species are the unit of analysis in many global change and conservation biology studies; however, species are not uniform entities but are composed of different, sometimes locally adapted, populations differing in plasticity. We examined how intraspecific variation in thermal niches and phenotypic plasticity will affect species distributions in a warming climate. We first developed a conceptual model linking...
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