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Transplantation of the Subshrub Lotus scoparius : Testing the Home‐Site Advantage Hypothesis

Transplantation of the Subshrub Lotus scoparius : Testing the Home‐Site Advantage Hypothesis Abstract: The long‐term success of restored populations may be jeopardized by the collection locality of transplants if they are ill matched to their new environment. The home‐site advantage hypothesis predicts that the relative success of introduced populations will decrease as their genetic and environmental distance to the local native population increases. We evaluated this hypothesis for a geographically variable shrub, Lotus scoparius, in southern Californian coastal sage scrub by planting two common‐garden experiments with seedlings from 12 source populations. The common‐garden sites differed in environment and were each home to different source populations of the two taxonomic varieties, L. s. var. scoparius or L. s. var. brevialatus. We used allozyme data from each source population to calculate genetic distances between populations, and a combination of climatic data and soil traits to calculate environmental distances. At the more mesic, coastal common garden, cumulative fitness of transplants (survival × flower production) was inversely related to genetic distance between source and resident populations. At the more xeric, inland common garden, cumulative fitness (survival × size) decreased significantly with both genetic and environmental distance after one taxonomic variety was excluded from analyses. Geographic distance was only weakly correlated with genetic distance and had little value in predicting cumulative fitness of transplants. Our data support the home‐site advantage hypothesis and the idea that mis‐matching source populations of these genetically differentiated seed sources may result in lowered success of restored or constructed populations. The genetic and environmental similarities of source populations should be considered when source materials are chosen for transplantation. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Conservation Biology Wiley

Transplantation of the Subshrub Lotus scoparius : Testing the Home‐Site Advantage Hypothesis

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Copyright © 2000 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
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10.1046/j.1523-1739.2000.99250.x
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Abstract

Abstract: The long‐term success of restored populations may be jeopardized by the collection locality of transplants if they are ill matched to their new environment. The home‐site advantage hypothesis predicts that the relative success of introduced populations will decrease as their genetic and environmental distance to the local native population increases. We evaluated this hypothesis for a geographically variable shrub, Lotus scoparius, in southern Californian coastal sage scrub by planting two common‐garden experiments with seedlings from 12 source populations. The common‐garden sites differed in environment and were each home to different source populations of the two taxonomic varieties, L. s. var. scoparius or L. s. var. brevialatus. We used allozyme data from each source population to calculate genetic distances between populations, and a combination of climatic data and soil traits to calculate environmental distances. At the more mesic, coastal common garden, cumulative fitness of transplants (survival × flower production) was inversely related to genetic distance between source and resident populations. At the more xeric, inland common garden, cumulative fitness (survival × size) decreased significantly with both genetic and environmental distance after one taxonomic variety was excluded from analyses. Geographic distance was only weakly correlated with genetic distance and had little value in predicting cumulative fitness of transplants. Our data support the home‐site advantage hypothesis and the idea that mis‐matching source populations of these genetically differentiated seed sources may result in lowered success of restored or constructed populations. The genetic and environmental similarities of source populations should be considered when source materials are chosen for transplantation.

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Conservation Biology – Wiley

Published: Aug 15, 2000

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