A great review of the importance of Clausen, Keck & Hiesey's work on our understanding of #evolution, and their connection to (and neglect in) the #modernSynthesis.

Dissects their perfection of common garden #experiments, and contributions to our understanding of #adaptation ("one of the first field verifications of #localAdaptation by #naturalSelection"), #plasticity, #speciation, #polyploidy, #genetic architecture of trait variation.

And an excellent read.

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/420540

Spent an amazing day in the field with Daniel Ortiz-Barrientos (@dortizba) and his lab looking a populations of Senecio lautus that are locally adapted to headland versus sand dune habitats. You can read about some of their latest work in this recent paper: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2004901118 #Evolution #LocalAdaptation #Speciation #plants #Australia

#introduction
 
Hi everyone 👋
I’m a postdoc in evolutionary biology working at #ColoradoStateUniversity.

I use experimental evolution with different #insects 🪰🪲 to study how populations #adapt to new environments. My main interests are #LocalAdaptation, #EvolutionaryRescue, #Adaptation and #PhenotypicPlasticity.

Can’t wait to follow new people here and talk about #ecology and #evolution.

Final revisions are finally incorporated so I'm sharing again!

Local Adaptation: Causal agents of selection and adaptive trait divergence

in Annual Review in Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, coauthored with @SeemaSheth, @Emjo, Jill Anderson, and Megan DrMarshe.

Free access here: URL: http://www.annualreviews.org/eprint/BSW6GNXHHXPMFYNPZRET/full/10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-012722-035231

#LocalAdaptation #NaturalSelection