{"id":742,"date":"2019-03-04T12:00:01","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T17:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/?p=742"},"modified":"2019-03-04T11:46:10","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T16:46:10","slug":"microscale-trait-environment-associations-in-protea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/blog\/2019\/03\/04\/microscale-trait-environment-associations-in-protea\/","title":{"rendered":"Microscale trait-environment associations in <em>Protea<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you follow me (or Nora Mitchell) on Twitter, you saw several weeks ago that a publish before print version of our most recent paper appeared in the <em>American Joiurnal of Botany<\/em>. This morning I noticed that the full published version is available on the <em>AJB<\/em> website. Here&#8217;s the citation and abstract:<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell, N., and K. E. Holsinger.\u00a0 2019.\u00a0 Microscale trait\u2010environment associations in two closely\u2010related South African shrubs. <em>American Journal of Botany<\/em> 106:211-222.\u00a0 doi: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/ajb2.1234\">10.1002\/ajb2.1234<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Premise of the Study<\/strong><br \/>\nPlant traits are often associated with the environments in which they occur, but these associations often differ across spatial and phylogenetic scales. Here we study the relationship between microenvironment, microgeographical location, and traits within populations using co\u2010occurring populations of two closely related evergreen shrubs in the genus <em>Protea<\/em>.<br \/>\n<strong>Methods<\/strong><br \/>\nWe measured a suite of functional traits on 147 plants along a single steep mountainside where both species occur, and we used data\u2010loggers and soil analyses to characterize the environment at 10 microsites spanning the elevational gradient. We used Bayesian path analyses to detect trait\u2010environment relationships in the field for each species. We used complementary data from greenhouse grown seedlings derived from wild collected seed to determine whether associations detected in the field are the result of genetic differentiation.<br \/>\n<strong>Key Results<\/strong><br \/>\nMicroenvironmental variables differed substantially across our study site. We found strong evidence for six trait\u2010environment associations, although these differed between species. We were unable to detect similar associations in greenhouse\u2010grown seedlings.<br \/>\n<strong>Conclusions<\/strong><br \/>\nSeveral leaf traits were associated with temperature and soil variation in the field, but the inability to detect these in the greenhouse suggests that differences in the field are not the result of genetic differentiation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you follow me (or Nora Mitchell) on Twitter, you saw several weeks ago that a publish before print version of our most recent paper appeared in the American Joiurnal&#8230; <a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/blog\/2019\/03\/04\/microscale-trait-environment-associations-in-protea\/\">Read more &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,23,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-botany","category-ecology","category-uconn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":743,"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions\/743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}