Common Garden Experiment

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Common Garden Experiment

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-collect individuals from different populations -results may depend on environment in common garden -results depend on which traits and populations are compared -early environment, maternal effects -raise multiple generations in common garden before measuring traits A common garden experiment is a classic study designed to control for many of the variables that would otherwise creep into an experiment. Because the plants are in the same garden, day length, sunlight, rainfall, temperature and a host of other variables are the same. The experimenter imports the plants and perhaps their native soils to conduct the experiment. Tansley worked with 2 species of plants in the same genus, one from acidic soils and one from alkaline soils. In nature, neither of the species was found outside its normal soil type.

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