The Climatic Variability Hypothesis and trade-offs in thermal performance in coastal and inland populations of Mimulus guttatus.

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Ecologists and evolutionary biologists have long predicted that organisms in more climatically variable environments should be adapted to handle a wider range of conditions. This intuitive idea, known as the Climatic Variability Hypothesis (CVH), has gained mixed support from empirical studies. We tested the CVH in a novel system by comparing the thermal breadth of coastal and inland populations of Mimulus...

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