"Local adaptation" refers to the process of adapting or adjusting something to fit the specific needs or conditions of a particular area or location. It means customizing or modifying something to work well in a specific local environment or context.
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of local adaptation and regional identity?
The costs are expected to be much higher than those associated with
local adaptation in other studies, though these measures by definition are limited in scope and scale, the scientists state.
«The selective sweeps we identified may be the basis
for local adaptation for different populations of birch,» Salojärvi says.
The UK Department for International Development and the European Union are supporting district and village institutions to develop and implement
Local Adaptation Plans of Action to address the impacts of climate change.
This has
required local adaptation over the last 100 years: the so - called Nikkei community has embraced a new country's ingredients and assimilated these into their cooking using Japanese techniques.
Let the Consumer
Design Local Adaptation — Before selecting a country, managers should conduct due diligence to understand the local consumer preferences.
Variation in pigmentation among human populations may
reflect local adaptation to regional light environments, because dark skin is more photoprotective, whereas pale skin aids the production of vitamin D. Although genes associated with skin pigmentation have been identified in European populations, little is known about the genetic basis of skin pigmentation in Africans.
To determine whether populations have
evolved local adaptation, Colautti and University of Toronto professor Spencer Barrett collected seeds from three different climatic regions and grew them at three sites spanning the distribution of the species in eastern North America.
Applied in combination with crop simulation models, it is also possible to
evaluate local adaptation strategies as successfully shown in an earlier study for barley in Finland.
Important gradients in stress levels, and
therefore local adaptation of the coral holobiont exist on coral reefs across today's oceans.
The article suggests that «there is building evidence that the hybridization of Tamarix may provide variation in traits that could
promote local adaptation.»
Potts is one of the coauthors of «Can
local adaptation explain varying patterns of herbivory tolerance in a recently introduced woody plant in North America?»
Increasingly local adaptation to climate is being studied at the molecular level by identifying which genes control climate adaptation and how these vary between individuals.
Hellmann expects to see
more local adaptation in the duskywing than in the swallowtails, as they are more isolated from their southern cousins.
In montane environments, environmental differences can occur over an elevation gradient,
favouring local adaptations across small spatial scales.
Local adaptation occurs along altitudinal gradient despite the existence of gene flow in the alpine plant species Festuca eskia.
Now, as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Davis, I am continuing to investigate the evolutionary forces shaping variation by studying if and
how local adaptation contributes to quantitative trait variation in domesticated maize.
Abstract: Coastal communities in tropical environments are at increasing risk from both environmental degradation and climate change and require
urgent local adaptation action.
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Our application on landuse traits certainly contains
such local adaptation due to peoples» choice of utilized organisms.
The contrasting responses to temperature may be related to multiple factors,
including local adaptation to temperature and other related climate variables, or sampling issues including changes in species» abundance at each location [45], [46].
Quantitative integrated assessment of climate change risks is not always possible, but it can play a key role in informing decisions both
about local adaptation and about large - scale mitigation policy.
For papers identifying locally adapted loci from SNP data in wild populations, the proportion of SNPs tested that were
local adaptation candidates based on either (a) FST outlier status or (b) significant genotype - environment associations, in comparison to the log - scaled number of individuals sampled in the reported dataset.
While local adaptation planners might be primarily be interested in how the patterns of heat extremes align with changes in population over their immediate community, it is equally important for decision makers to recognise the broader implications of heat exposure increases driven by future changes in where people live.
Doing so, moreover, will predictably reproduce in
local adaptation decisionmaking the motivated reasoning pathology — the «us - them» dynamic in which people react to scientific evidence like Red Sox and Yankees fans disputing an umpire's called third strike — that now enfeeble national deliberations.
Mental health problems, subjective WE and PWE contexts were assessed
by local adaptations of internationally developed measures for use with former child soldiers at least 6 years after the end of the war.
Working with programme implementers to determine resource requirements, costs of delivery and any
necessary local adaptations, economic models could be used to determine the likelihood that interventions are likely to be cost - effective in different contexts, and over different time periods.