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Population responses to a historic drought across the range of the common monkeyflower (Mimulus guttatus).
American journal of botany - 1 Feb 2021
Kooyers Nicholas J, Morioka Kelsie A, Colicchio Jack M, Clark Kaitlyn S, Donofrio Abigail, Estill Shayne K, Pascualy Catalina R, Anderson Ian C, Hagler Megan, Cho Chloe, Blackman Benjamin K
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PREMISE: Due to climate change, more frequent and intense periodic droughts are predicted to increasingly pose major challenges to the persistence of plant populations. When a severe drought occurs over a broad geographical region, independent responses by individual populations provide replicated natural experiments for examining the evolution of drought resistance and the potential for evolutionary rescue....
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