Inheritance and Natural Selection on Functional Traits

By M. Geber, Lauren R. Griffen. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL PLANT SCIENCES, 2003

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Community Assembly, Niche Conservatism, and Adaptive Evolution in Changing Environments (2003, background): “However, quantitative genetic studies have generally documented fairly high heritability for quantitative traits of ecological significance (Geber and Griffen 2003).”
Niche Conservatism: Integrating Evolution, Ecology, and Conservation Biology (2005, background): “…evidence includes differences in climatic regimes among some closely related species (e.g., closely related montane and lowland endemics) and the evidence for genetic variation in most quantitative traits (e.g., Roff 1997), particularly those of ecological significance (e.g., Geber & Griffen 2003).”
Influence of phylogeny and ploidy on species ranges of North American angiosperms (2009, background): “This seems reasonable given that a species’ range is the summation of its constituents’ ecological tolerances, and that ecological tolerances are influenced by physiological, morphological and life-history traits, which are often found to be heritable in field studies (Geber & Griffen 2003).”
The biogeography of plant reproduction: potential determinants of species’ range sizes (2006, background): “Evidence supports the caveat that while self-fertilization may result in reduced diversity, it is not a rule (Gitzendanner & Soltis, 2000; Geber & Griffen, 2003).”
Multiple plant traits shape the genetic basis of herbivore community assembly (2015, background): “…these consequences will require us to move beyond simply identifying plant genotype–herbivore associations to research that characterizes: (i) herbivore responses to host-plant traits; and (ii) the magnitude of variation and heritability of these plant phenotypes (Geber & Griffen 2003).”
A global meta-analysis of the relative extent of intraspecific trait variation in plant communities. (2015, unknown): “…trait variation is likely to be larger than intraspecific genetic variation for most traits and communities, given the low heritability typically observed for plant functional traits in field conditions (Geber & Griffen 2003), although exceptions certainly exist (see e.g. Donovan et al. 2010) .”
“How Local Is Local?”—A Review of Practical and Conceptual Issues in the Genetics of Restoration (2005, background): “Key words: ecotype, local adaptation, outbreeding depression, restoration, seed zones.”
A Quantitative Survey of Local Adaptation and Fitness Trade‐Offs (2009, background): “Other reviews have shown that there is additive genetic variation within most natural populations (Mousseau and Roff 1987; Roff and Mousseau 1987; Houle 1992; Geber and Griffen 2003) and that new variation is continually introduced via mutation (Houle et al. 1996).”
Global Root Traits (GRooT) Database (2020, methodology): “Plant traits have been used for describing multiple aspects of plant species’ fitness and realized performance, including growth, survival and reproduction (Adler et al., 2014; Calow, 1987; Díaz et al., 2016; Geber & Griffen, 2003; Grime, 1977; Reich et al., 2003).”
Genetic differentiation and regional adaptation among seed origins used for grassland restoration: lessons from a multispecies transplant experiment (2017, background): “This is not surprising since the variation in fitness-related traits is under strong directional selection limiting differentiation among populations (Geber & Griffen 2003; Kingsolver & Diamond 2011).”
The evolution of trade‐offs: where are we? (2007, background): “At least some of the indexes of acquisition, such as body fat content, are likely to be highly correlated to total body size for which there is an abundant evidence of considerable genetic variance under laboratory conditions (Mousseau & Roff, 1987; for plants see Geber & Griffen, 2003).”
EARLY EMERGENCE ENHANCES PLANT FITNESS: A PHYLOGENETICALLY CONTROLLED META‐ANALYSIS (2005, background): “At the same time, we argue that selection on emergence time may vary on time and space and across life history episodes, which may slow the rate of evolutionary change, maintain the population genetic diversity, and select for plasticity (Geber and Griffen 2003).”
Biodiversity and Climate Change: Integrating Evolutionary and Ecological Responses of Species and Communities (2010, background): “In plants, for instance, regeneration traits (Baskin & Baskin 1998), functional traits linked to phenology, growth or gas exchange (Geber & Griffen 2003), and drought tolerance (Ramirez-Valiente et al. 2009) all exhibit significant genetic variation shaped by selection along environmental gradients.”