| Overrun by the neighbors: landscape context affects strength and sign of local adaptation. | |
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PMID: 20836447 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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The adaptive deme formation hypothesis states that plant-feeding insects may adapt to individual host plants. To date, no empirical study has examined the strength of such adaptations from a spatially explicit perspective. In this study, we quantify local adaptation of six specialist insect species at multiple sites, predicting that spatial variation in local immigration rates will result in variation in the strength of local adaptation. We use a previously parameterized metapopulation model to estimate the proportion of immigrants in focal populations, clonal trees to measure local adaptation in a reciprocal common garden experiment, and a linear model to test for a link between the strength of immigration and local adaptation across species. As predicted, local adaptation generally varies inversely with the fraction of immigrants in a population. When immigration is high, local populations remain in a maladapted state. Importantly, our results imply that patterns of adaptation may vary predictably at a relatively small spatial scale (among individual host trees within a landscape) and that, hence, measures of local adaptation will make most sense in a spatial context. |
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Authors:
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Ayco J M Tack; Tomas Roslin |
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Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Ecology Volume: 91 ISSN: 0012-9658 ISO Abbreviation: Ecology Publication Date: 2010 Aug |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2010-09-14 Completed Date: 2010-10-05 Revised Date: - |
Medline Journal Info:
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Nlm Unique ID: 0043541 Medline TA: Ecology Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 2253-60 Citation Subset: IM |
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Metapopulation Research Group, Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 65 (Viikinkaari 1), Helsinki FI-00014, Finland. ayco.tack@helsinki.fi |
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Adaptation, Physiological* Animals Biodiversity* Finland Geography Insects / physiology* Population Dynamics Quercus |
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