In this model, two species compete along a climate gradient, and the same trait determines their fitness along the gradient and their competition with one another.
In this study, we address local population evolutionary adaptive divergence in heat shock response and Hsps across a climate gradient.
Common gardens are becoming widely used in a 'chronosequence context' (Etterson 2004; Shaw and Etterson 2012) in which a climate gradient is used as a proxy for the projected climate and to make predictions about the extent of range expansion.
Bennett, S. Ecological drivers of seaweed canopy resilience along a latitudinal climate gradient PhD thesis, University of Western Australia (2015).
Variations in belowground carbon storage and soil COB2Bflux rates along a wet tropical climate gradient.
We explored variation in thermotolerance and Hsp101 expression in seedlings from 16 natural populations of A. thaliana sampled along an elevation and climate gradient.
Recent work suggests two spatial gradients exist in the Morrison Fm.: a south to north, arid to temperate climate gradient and an east to west precipitation/drainage gradient [87], [88].
This climate gradient mainly reflects a temperature and precipitation gradient.
That is, populations from the cooler, moister end of the climate gradient exhibited increased per cent seedling survival compared with populations from hotter and drier climates.
It may seem counter-intuitive that the genetic lines from cooler, moister end of the climate gradient exhibited higher seedling survival and post-stress root growth than lines from the hotter, dryer end of the gradient.
