Reciprocal transplants support a plasticity-first scenario during colonisation of a large hyposaline basin by a marine macro alga

Reciprocal transplants support a plasticity-first scenario during colonisation of a large hyposaline basin by a marine macro alga

Abstract Background Establishing populations in ecologically marginal habitats may require substantial phenotypic changes that come about through phenotypic plasticity, local adaptation, or both. West-Eberhard’s “plasticity-first” model suggests that plasticity allows for rapid colonisation of a new...

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Main Authors: Daniel Johansson, Ricardo T. Pereyra, Marina Rafajlović, Kerstin Johannesson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-04-01
Series:BMC Ecology
Subjects:
Common garden
Reciprocal transplant
Salinity
Asexual reproduction
Fucus vecisulosus
Fucus radicans
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12898-017-0124-1

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