ArticleEcology and evolution2021
Plasticity is a locally adapted trait with consequences for ecological dynamics in novel environments.
Article in Ecology and evolution, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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- Plastic responses to past environments shape adaptation to novel selection pressures.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Plasticity is a locally adapted trait with consequences for ecological dynamics in novel environments.Ecology and evolution · 2021Article
- Interspecific trait variability and plasticity of the Baltic Sea phytoplankton species along a salinity gradient.Journal of plankton researchArticle
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Abstract
Phenotypic plasticity is predicted to evolve in more variable environments, conferring an advantage on individual lifetime fitness. It is less clear what the potential consequences of that plasticity will have on ecological population dynamics. Here, we use an invertebrate model system to examine the effects of environmental variation (resource availability) on the evolution of phenotypic plasticity in two life history traits-age and size at maturation-in long-running, experimental density-dependent environments. Specifically, we then explore the feedback from evolution of life history plasticity to subsequent ecological dynamics in novel conditions. Plasticity in both traits initially declined in all microcosm environments, but then evolved increased plasticity for age-at-maturation, significantly so in more environmentally variable environments. We also demonstrate how plasticity affects ecological dynamics by creating founder populations of different plastic phenotypes into new microcosms that had either familiar or novel environments. Populations originating from periodically variable environments
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