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Data from: Precipitation drives global variation in natural selection

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Siepielski, Adam et al. (2018). Data from: Precipitation drives global variation in natural selection [Dataset]. Dryad. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.52650

Abstract

Climate change has the potential to affect the ecology and evolution of every species on Earth. Although the ecological consequences of climate change are increasingly well documented, the effects of climate on the key evolutionary process driving adaptation—natural selection—are largely unknown. We report that aspects of precipitation and potential evapotranspiration, along with the North Atlantic Oscillation, predicted variation in selection across plant and animal populations throughout many terrestrial biomes, whereas temperature explained little variation. By showing that selection was influenced by climate variation, our results indicate that climate change may cause widespread alterations in selection regimes, potentially shifting evolutionary trajectories at a global scale.

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Funding

National Science Foundation, Award: EF-0905606 DEB-1620046

Location

Global