Nature Communications (Aug 2016)

Adaptation to elevated CO2 in different biodiversity contexts

  • Elizabeth J. Kleynhans,
  • Sarah P. Otto,
  • Peter B. Reich,
  • Mark Vellend

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12358
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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How do species adapt to environmental change when living with different kinds of competitors? Through a reciprocal transplant experiment, the authors show that competitive community alters the nature of selection so that species adapt to elevated CO2in different ways in varying community contexts.