Studies of local adaptation provide important insights into the power of natural selection
relative to gene flow and other evolutionary forces. They are a paradigm for testing …

Climate is a potent selective force in natural populations, yet the importance of adaptation in
the response of plant species to past climate change has been questioned. As many species …

Humans are altering the composition of biological communities through a variety of activities
that increase rates of species invasions and species extinctions, at all scales, from local to …

Human well-being relies critically on ecosystem services provided by nature. Examples
include water and air quality regulation, nutrient cycling and decomposition, plant pollination …

The long history of reciprocal transplant studies testing the hypothesis of local adaptation
has shown that populations are often adapted to their local environments. Yet many studies …

Local adaptation is of fundamental importance in evolutionary, population, conservation,
and global-change biology. The generality of local adaptation in plants and whether and …

Recent studies illustrate the emerging field of restoration genetics, which is a synthesis of
restoration ecology and population genetics. The translocation of organisms during the …

Functional traits are increasingly used to investigate community structure, ecosystem
functioning or to classify species into functional groups. These functional traits are expected …

• Premise of the study: Near‐future climate changes are likely to elicit major vegetation
changes. Disequilibrium dynamics, which occur when vegetation comes out of equilibrium …

Aim To assess the geographical transferability of niche‐based species distribution models
fitted with two modelling techniques. Location Two distinct geographical study areas in …