To address the first question, we need to establish if a decrease in size under a warmer climate improves fitness.
Pelini et al. [ 25] also found that climate affects fitness on alternate host plants, switching the relative value of host species under different climate treatments in P. zelicaon.
Hellmann and Pineda-Krch (2007) simulated the adaptational lag in a changing climate when fitness is determined by two pleiotropically linked traits and confirmed that genetic correlations increase the lag and decrease the amount of environmental change a population could tolerate, especially when the change in environment runs against the genetic line-of-least-resistance (Bürger and Krall 2004).
Studies of landraces populations employing various conditions – across years, locations, or with experimental treatments mimicking climate change – where fitness, and traits with effects on fitness, are measured, can clarify the range of environments under which landrace populations may be able to maintain fitness, and how.
Many salmon populations in the Pacific Northwest are already threatened with extinction, so the effects of climate on absolute fitness (i.e. a population's capacity for replacing itself) warrant conservation concern, and must be considered in the context of a web of natural and anthropogenic agents of selection (Waples et al. 2008).
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Adaptive evolution and plasticity offer two ways species can sustain fitness despite climate change (Holt 1990; Urban et al. 2012).
Thus, our model is appropriate if the effect of climate on focal plant fitness is mediated by survival (e.g., Espigares and Peco 1993; Quintana et al. 2004; Young et al. 2004) or by flowering rate (Morrison and Stewart 2002).
As discussed earlier, this result likely reflects temperature-specific adaptation to the warmer southern climate, although a general fitness advantage on susceptible cultivars cannot be ruled out when considering our field data.
(Imagine the headline "World Markets Near Collapse: Muscle Tone Under Threat.f221;) Yet, businesspeople themselves wonder how a perilous financial climate will affect their physical fitness — and if exercise could help them weather hard times.
