The response of vegetation to climate change has implications for the carbon cycle and global climate. It is frequently assumed that a species responds uniformly across its range to climate change. However, ecotypes − locally adapted populations within a species − display differences in traits that may affect their gross primary productivity ( To determine if ecotypes are important for understanding the response of ecosystem productivity to climate we measured and modeled growing season Transplanted northern ecotypes displayed home‐site advantage in The results demonstrate that ecotypic differentiation can impact the morphology and function of vegetation with implications for carbon cycling. Moreover they suggest that ecotypic control of
Ecotypic variation in forage nutrient value of a dominant grassland species,
- NSF-PAR ID:
- 10201600
- Publisher / Repository:
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Grassland Science
- Volume:
- 62
- Issue:
- 4
- ISSN:
- 1744-6961
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- p. 233-242
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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