Acknowledgements
This research was supported by NSF-IGERT and NSF GK-12 Fellowships (HF
Cooper), NSF Bridging Ecology and Evolution grant DEB‐1914433 (RJ Best,
GJ Allan, R Lindroth, TG Whitham), NSF MacroSystems grant DEB-1340852
(GJ Allan, TG Whitham, CG Gehring, & KC Grady), NSF Macrosystems grant
DEB-134056 (KR Hultine), NSF DBI-1126840 (TG Whitham), which established
the Southwest Experimental Garden Array. We thank our agency partners
for helping to facilitate use of the common gardens: Dana Warnecke and
Kelly Wolf at Arizona Game and Fish (Agua Fria), Erica Stewart at the
Bureau of Land Management (Yuma), and Barry Bakker, Phil Adams, and
Kristen and Matt Redd at The Nature Conservancy’s Canyonlands Research
Center at Dugout Ranch. We acknowledge Christopher Updike, Zachary
Ventrella, Davis Blasini, Dan Koepke, and Matthew McEttrick, along with
many volunteers for help establishing and maintaining the common
gardens. We thank Helen Bothwell for her help developing and
troubleshooting the SNP library. Lastly, thanks to Jacob Cowan, Michelle
Hockenbury, Teresa Reyes, and Michelle Bem for assistance with data
collection in the field, and the Cottonwood Ecology and Community
Genetics Lab for their constructive comments and reviews.