1986
DOI: 10.1080/00222938600770951
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Altitude and the keel petal polymorphism ofLotus corniculatusL.

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“…The hypothesis that the elinal variation m keel colour is temperature-and/or sunshine-related is borne out by strong correlations between the frequency of dark-keeled plants and altitude in several European mountain ranges (Baker & Jones, 1986). We have also found such correlations in Britain, in the vicinity of Malham, Yorkshire [as has T. J. Crawford (personal communication)], and on Great Cumbrae Island, Firth of Clyde, west Scotland (Table 1).…”
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“…The hypothesis that the elinal variation m keel colour is temperature-and/or sunshine-related is borne out by strong correlations between the frequency of dark-keeled plants and altitude in several European mountain ranges (Baker & Jones, 1986). We have also found such correlations in Britain, in the vicinity of Malham, Yorkshire [as has T. J. Crawford (personal communication)], and on Great Cumbrae Island, Firth of Clyde, west Scotland (Table 1).…”
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“…However, their data do not show such associations with altitude along transects in far western Britain (Galloway, north W'ales and the Lake District). Baker & Jones (1986) note that in a study oi Lotus corniculatus carried out in Norway by Compton, Newsome & Jones (1983), a negative correlation between the frequency of dark-keeled plants and altitude is revealed. This association was not reported in the original paper.…”
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“…By contrast, although L. corniculatus populations are polymorphic for keel colour throughout western Europe, regular geographical clinal change in morph frequencies seems to be restricted to the British Isles (Jones and Crawford, 1977 and unpublished data). In the Alps, the Pyrenees and the Auvergne, however, there are rapid increases in dark-keel frequency at higher altitudes (Baker and Jones, 1986). Allowing for the higher latitudes of the British Isles, similar associations might be expected at lower altitudes, but they seem to be absent ( figs.…”
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“…From the limited data available for continental Europe, the morphs appear to show no clear distribution pattern except that dark-keeled plants are often rare near the Atlantic and North Sea coasts (Jones and Crawford, 1977) but increase in frequency with altitude in the Alps, the Auvergne and in the Pyrenees (Baker and Jones, 1986). In England and Wales, however, Jones and Crawford (1977) observed that dark-keeled plants were more common in the north than in the south, while in Scotland the frequency of dark-keeled plants is greater in eastern regions than in the west (Abbott, 1981).…”
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“…Despite being genetically dominant, the dark-keel phenotype only occasionally forms a large majority in natural populations, and in the coastal regions of mainland Europe it is light-keeled individuals which are most frequently encountered (Jones and Crawford, 1977). Inland the dark-keel phenotype is commoner and a clear association between the frequency of the dark-keeled form and altitude has been described for the Auvergne, the Pyrenees and the Haute-Savoie in France and also in Austria (Baker and Jones, 1986). This implies that in many areas dark-keeled plants are at some disadvantage relative to their light-keeled neighbours.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%