Local adaptation in a marine foundation species: Implications for resilience to future global change

K DuBois, KN Pollard, BJ Kauffman… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Environmental change is multidimensional, with local anthropogenic stressors and global
climate change interacting to differentially impact populations throughout a species' …

Previous exposure mediates the response of eelgrass to future warming via clonal transgenerational plasticity

K DuBois, SL Williams, JJ Stachowicz - Ecology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Mortality and shifts in species distributions are among the most obvious consequences of
extreme climatic events. However, the sublethal effects of an extreme event can have …

[HTML][HTML] Climate change impacts on seagrass meadows and macroalgal forests: an integrative perspective on acclimation and adaptation potential

B Duarte, I Martins, R Rosa, AR Matos… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Marine macrophytes are the foundation of algal forests and seagrass meadows–some of the
most productive and diverse coastal marine ecosystems on the planet. These ecosystems …

Importance of genetic diversity in eelgrass Zostera marina for its resilience to global warming

A Ehlers, B Worm, TBH Reusch - Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2008 - int-res.com
Effects of global warming on marine ecosystems are far less understood than they are in
terrestrial environments. Macrophyte-based coastal ecosystems are particularly vulnerable …

Understanding local adaptation to prepare populations for climate change

MH Meek, EA Beever, S Barbosa, SW Fitzpatrick… - …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Adaptation within species to local environments is widespread in nature. Better
understanding this local adaptation is critical to conserving biodiversity. However …

Understanding interactions between plasticity, adaptation and range shifts in response to marine environmental change

JM Donelson, JM Sunday… - … of the Royal …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Climate change is leading to shifts in species geographical distributions, but populations are
also probably adapting to environmental change at different rates across their range. Owing …

Effects of local adaptation and interspecific competition on species' responses to climate change

G Bocedi, KE Atkins, J Liao, RC Henry… - Annals of the New …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Local adaptation and species interactions have been shown to affect geographic ranges;
therefore, we need models of climate impact that include both factors. To identify possible …

Genotype-specific responses to light stress in eelgrass Zostera marina, a marine foundation plant

T Salo, TBH Reusch, C Boström - Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2015 - int-res.com
Within mono-specific meadows of clonal plants, genotypic diversity may functionally replace
species diversity. Little is known about the variability in performance and plasticity of …

Response of a habitat-forming marine plant to a simulated warming event is delayed, genotype specific, and varies with phenology

LK Reynolds, K DuBois, JM Abbott, SL Williams… - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Growing evidence shows that increasing global temperature causes population declines
and latitudinal shifts in geographical distribution for plants living near their thermal limits …

Central and rear-edge populations can be equally vulnerable to warming

S Bennett, T Wernberg, B Arackal Joy… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Rear (warm) edge populations are often considered more susceptible to warming than
central (cool) populations because of the warmer ambient temperatures they experience, but …