Topic

Local adaptation

The evolutionary outcome in which a population carries heritable traits that suit its own site better than those carried by populations from elsewhere, usually tested by comparing performance at home and away.

Current clusters

science1 publisher

Stream sticklebacks outperformed rivals from a few kilometres away in a Bern field trial

Sticklebacks bred for two generations in identical Bern tanks still did best at the exact stream their grandparents came from. Local adaptation sits at a finer scale than the lake-versus-stream contrast.

Publishers:phys.org

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption: Insufficient
Hype gap+15
Incentives55
Confidence58