Figure 1
From: Competition alters species’ plastic and genetic response to environmental change
Experimental set-up. (a) During the selection phase, populations of all species were kept in five different environmental conditions (represented by color shades) either in absence (blue colors) or presence (orange colors) of competing species (each threefold replicated). (b) End of the selection phase. Change in trait means from (a) to (b) reflect the phenotypic temporal response to salinity and competition. (c,d) Common garden experiment in which aliquots of the populations of all species evolved in the absence (c) and presence (d) of competition are placed in a common salinity environment, respectively. In this study, for the competition treatment an aliquot of the end point of the selection phase was used in the common garden. Comparing trait means between (c) and (d) shows whether the response to salinity depends on the competition and salinity condition the species was selected in.
