What is it about?
Plants may modify aspects of their biology in response to rapid climate change, however the way that plant biologists usually analyse these responses needs reconsideration. We provide a concise guide to a more effective way to analyse these data.
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Why is it important?
Understanding how plants respond to the changing climate is now critical. We provide an accessible primer and demonstration for researchers to apply recent developments in statistical modelling to better measure the shape of plant trait responses and assess these responses at both the individual and population levels simultaneously.
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Our article aims to make a relatively complex area of statistical analysis more accessible to plant biologists - despite the widespread use of these models in animal evolutionary ecology, these approaches have great potential for plants as well. We hope that our paper inspires the relevant plant biology fields to use such modelling approaches and that this encourages communication across plant and animal research disciplines.
Dr Pieter A Arnold
Australian National University
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This page is a summary of: How to analyse plant phenotypic plasticity in response to a changing climate, New Phytologist, January 2019, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/nph.15656.
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