ARTIFICIAL SELECTION: A POWERFUL TOOL FOR ECOLOGISTS

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Rapid responses of soil microorganisms improve plant fitness in novel environments (2012, methodology): “To investigate how both plant populations and belowground microbial communities respond to soil moisture, we conducted a “selection in a controlled environment experiment” (50).”
Microevolutionary Response to Climatic Change (2004, methodology): “A number of different methods have been proposed and applied for ascertaining genetic differentiation in space and time (see Reznick and Travis, 1996; Reznick and Ghalambor, 2001; Boake et al., 2002; Conner, 2003).”
A reassessment of genetic limits to evolutionary change (2005, background): “…the potential of selection experiments and other quantitative genetic approaches to address limits to evolutionary change in the context of species distributions and trade-offs (Brakefield 2003, Conner 2003, Fry 2003), suggesting that such approaches may become more common in evolutionary ecology.”
Abundant Genetic Variation + Strong Selection = Multivariate Genetic Constraints: A Geometric View of Adaptation (2009, background): “A number of two-trait artificial selection experiments have demonstrated that response along a direction orthogonal to strong genetic correlations is easily obtainable (Beldade et al. 2002, Conner 2003), suggesting that such genetic correlations do not represent effective constraints.”