Article
Some like it hot: adaptation to the urban heat island in common dandelion
2023-06-05
Abstract excerpt
The Urban Heat Island Effect (UHIE) is a globally consistent pressure on species living in cities. Rapid adaptation to the UHIE may be necessary for urban wild flora to persist in cities, but experimental evidence is lacking. Here, we report the first evidence of genetic differentiation in a plant species in response to the UHIE. We collected seeds from common dandelion ( Taraxacum officinale ) individuals along...
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- Literature Corpus work
- fb30b316-f174-589a-abbd-3976e7ea50bd
- DOI
- 10.1101/2023.06.01.543268
