The relative importance of plasticity versus genetic differentiation in explaining between population differences; a meta-analysis.

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Both plasticity and genetic differentiation can contribute to phenotypic differences between populations. Using data on non-fitness traits from reciprocal transplant studies, we show that approximately 60% of traits exhibit co-gradient variation whereby genetic differences and plasticity-induced differences between populations are the same sign. In these cases, plasticity is about twice as important as genetic...

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