Ecological rather than geographic or genetic distance affects local adaptation of the rare perennial herb, Aster amellus

Abstract

Transferring plants between populations of rare species has often been proposed to increase population size and replenish genetic variation. While this approach has many advantages, it may also disrupt local adaptation.

However, the scale over which plan

Keywords

• asteraceae
• gene flow
• habitat fragmentation
• home-site advantage
• reciprocal transplant
• translocations
• plant ranunculus-reptans
• population differentiation
• conceptual issues
• natural-selection
• carlina-vulgaris
• restoration
• scale
• flow
• conservation
• germination