BIOL3044 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Semelparity And Iteroparity, Achillea Millefolium, Transect
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Home field advantage : where there"s an advantage to being in territory that is familiar to the individual. A number of previous examples we looked at had an element of adaptation to local conditions. Ex. the insects that fed on different host plants and whether it produced a trade-off adaptations to local conditions for whatever plant the insects were feeding on. One of the most well-known example of local adaptation: the darwin"s finches of local adaptation. This sketch is a cross-section of california from the pacific ocean, through the central valley and up through the mountains: along the transect, the growth of plants (yarrow) varied quite a bit. The plants were brought to be raised in a common garden to determine the genetic differences among the plants: they all have different growth patterns there are genetic differences between the populations. Ferry, originating from stanford, died when planted in the timberline common garden while the plants from.
