Common Garden Experiment Design

In a usual common garden experiment two species of plants growing in their native environments would both be transplanted in a common environment.

Common garden experiment design. The name was originally applied to experiments on plants but is now equally applied to animals such as lizards and ants and other organisms. Scarpino2 thanapat pongwarin1 james scott3 4 and mikhail v. A transplant experiment also known as a common garden experiment is an experiment to test the effect of environment by moving two species from their native environments into a common environment.

A reciprocal transplant experiment involves. Your colleague designed a common garden experiment to determine if moisture level influences competition between a native alga and an exotic alga. Transplant experiment also known as a common garden experiment although this term is more plant specific is an experiment where one or more organisms are moved from one environment to another environment.

Matz1 1department of integrative biology the university of texas at austin austin texas usa 2santa fe institute santa fe new mexico usa. In order to establish an experimental framework in which to investigate variability in phenotypic traits within and among salmon lice populations an experimental protocol was established for producing full sibling family groups to study in a common garden experiment i e mixing all families together in the same environment figure 1. In the present study growth of two farmed five wild and two f1 hybrid populations was investigated at three different temperatures using a common garden experimental design.

Wet with native only wet with exotic only wet with both algae and dry with both algae. Our study is the first to compare the growth of several different populations of wild hybrid and farmed salmon in such an experimental setting across a temperature gradient.