Ryan, Amanda, and Dave worked with other UMN collaborators on a synthesis of local adaptation that compares the strength of local adaptation to abiotic versus biotic environments. It also examines the latitudinal variation in the strength of the effects of abiotic and biotic environments on fitness. It combines a quantitative meta-analysis of published datasets with a qualitative metasynthesis, which systematically examines the text of those published papers. This mixed-methods approach has not been used in ecology and evolutionary biology but has begun to emerge in other scientific literatures.
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