ReviewAoB PLANTS2020
Small spaces, big impacts: contributions of micro-environmental variation to population persistence under climate change.
Review in AoB PLANTS, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.
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21 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Advancing ecological and evolutionary research in Arabidopsis: Extending insights into model and nonmodel plants.The Plant cell · 2025Review
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- Microenvironment created byHeliyon · 2024Article
- Chasing the fitness optimum: temporal variation in the genetic and environmental expression of life-history traits for a perennial plant.Annals of botany · 2023Article
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- Methods used for the study of endophytic fungi: a review on methodologies and challenges, and associated tips.Archives of microbiology · 2022Review
- Introduction to the Special Issue: The ecology and genetics of population differentiation in plants.AoB PLANTS · 2021Review
- Fine-scale empirical data on niche divergence and homeolog expression patterns in an allopolyploid and its diploid progenitor species.The New phytologist · 2021Article
- Plant functional traits are correlated with species persistence in the herb layer of old-growth beech forests.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Temporal migration rates affect the genetic structure of populations in the biennialAoB PLANTS · 2020Article
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Abstract
Individuals within natural populations can experience very different abiotic and biotic conditions across small spatial scales owing to microtopography and other micro-environmental gradients. Ecological and evolutionary studies often ignore the effects of micro-environment on plant population and community dynamics. Here, we explore the extent to which fine-grained variation in abiotic and biotic conditions contributes to within-population variation in trait expression and genetic diversity in natural plant populations. Furthermore, we consider whether benign microhabitats could buffer local populations of some plant species from abiotic stresses imposed by rapid anthropogenic climate change. If microrefugia sustain local populations and communities in the short term, other eco-evolutionary processes, such as gene flow and adaptation, could enhance population stability in the longer term. We caution, however, that local populations may still decline in size as they contract into rare microhabitats and microrefugia. We encourage future research that explicitly examines the role of the micro-environment in maintaining genetic variation within local populations, favouring the evolution of phenotypic plasticity at local scales and enhancing population persistence under global change.
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