An experimental investigation of local adaptation in common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca)

This is an oral presentation two University of Lynchburg undergraduates (Emily Dougherty and Matthew Geiger) gave at our annual university-wide Student Scholar Showcase in spring 2019. They used repeated-measures ANOVA to test for differences in plant traits and herbivore density among five different populations of milkweeds grown in a common garden in central Virginia. Their analyses are based on the first year of growth.