Microclimate predicts frost-hardiness of alpine Arabidopsis thaliana populations better than altitude because the microclimate effect increases with altitude
C. Lampei, J. Wunder, T. Wilhalm, K. J. Schmid
The paper finds that microclimate, not altitude, better predicts frost-hardiness in alpine Arabidopsis thaliana populations because microclimate effects intensify with altitude.
bioRxiv · Feb 8, 2019Evolutionary Biology