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Early life history responses and phenotypic shifts in a rare endemic plant responding to climate change

Published:2019-01-01 Issue:1 Volume:7 Page:
ISSN:2051-1434
Container-title:Conservation Physiology
language:en
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Author:

Winkler Daniel E¹²,Lin Michelle Yu-Chan³,Delgadillo José⁴,Chapin Kenneth J⁵,Huxman Travis E¹

Affiliation:

1. Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, 321 Steinhaus Hall, University of California, Irvine, CA, 92697, USA

2. United States Geological Survey, 2290 S West Resource Boulevard, Southwest Biological Science Center, UT, 84532, USA

3. Biological Sciences, University of California, Irvine, CA, 92617, USA

4. Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Ensenada, Baja California, 22800, México

5. Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, P.O. Box 210088, Tucson, AZ, 85721, USA

Abstract

We studied how a rare, endemic alpine cushion plant responds to the interactive effects of warming and drought. Overall, we found that both drought and warming negatively influenced the species growth but that existing levels of phenotypic variation may be enough to at least temporarily buffer populations.

Funder

Annetta Carter Memorial Fund

California Botanical Society

UC MEXUS Student Research Grant

Explorers Club Exploration Fund

American Alpine Club Research Grant

University of California

Irvine’s Center for Environmental Biology

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Irvine Summer Undergraduate Research Program

UCI’s School of Biological Sciences

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