Evolutionary responses to historic drought across the range of scarlet monkeyflower

Adaptive evolution is a key means for populations to persist under environmental change, yet whether populations across a species’ range can adapt quickly enough to keep pace with climate change remains unknown. The breeder’s equation predicts the evolutionary change in a trait from one generation to the next as the product of the selection differential and the narrow-sense heritability in that trait. Incorporating these aspects of the breeder’s equation, we performed a resurrection study with the scarlet monkeyflower (Mimulus cardinalis) to evaluate whether traits associated with drought adaptation have evolved in populations across a species’ range in response to extreme drought. We compared trait and fitness differences of pre-drought ancestors and post-drought descendants from six populations transplanted into three latitudinally-arrayed common gardens and quantified phenotypic selection and trait heritabilities. The strength, direction, and mode of selection varied among traits and..., , , # Data from: Evolutionary responses to historic drought across the range of scarlet monkeyflower

[https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.18931zd7g](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.18931zd7g)

## Description of the data and file structure

These data are associated with a common garden study of scarlet monkeyflower (*Mimulus cardinalis*). In 2023, we transplanted pre-drought 2010 ancestors alongside post-drought 2017 descendants from two northern-edge, two central, and two southern-edge populations into three experimental gardens near the northern range edge, latitudinal range center, and southern range edge in the western United States. We collected data on several physiological and leaf traits associated with adaptation to drought, along with proxies for fitness, including survival and reproductive output.  

### Files and variables

1\. **PERSIST_2023_data.csv**: 2023 trait data for all populations and cohorts in all gardens

* garden: experimental garden (north, center, south)

- block: experi...,