ArticleEcology letters2025
High Capacity for Physiological Plasticity Occurs at a Slow Rate in Ectotherms.
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- Limited capacity for rapid acclimation to marine heatwaves in coastal invertebrates.The Journal of animal ecology · 2026Article
- The use of fish diversity and abundance as environmental indicators in a mining region in Brazilian Amazonia.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Energy availability influences the dynamics of thermal phenotypic plasticity.The Journal of experimental biology · 2026Article
- Trans-Generational Morphological Trait Plasticity in Parthenogenetic Offspring of TwoEcology and evolution · 2026Article
- Temporal dynamics and adaptiveness of thermal phenotypic plasticity in a ciliate.Evolution letters · 2025Article
- Genetic and Environmental Factors Shape Rates of Plasticity: The Temporal Dynamics of Opsin Gene Expression in Aquatic Environments.Molecular biology and evolution · 2025Article
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Abstract
Phenotypic plasticity enables organisms to express a phenotype that is optimal in their current environment. The ability of organisms to obtain the optimum phenotype is determined by their (i) capacity for plasticity, which facilitates phenotypic adjustment corresponding to the amplitude of environmental change but also their (ii) rate of plasticity, because this determines if the expressed phenotype lags behind changes in the optimum. How the rate of- and capacity for plasticity have co-evolved will thus be critical for the resilience of organisms under different patterns of environmental change. To evaluate the direction of the evolved relationship between plasticity rate and capacity, we reanalysed experiments documenting the time course of thermal tolerance acclimation to temperature change across species of ectothermic animals. We found that the rate and capacity with which thermal tolerance responds plastically to temperature change are negatively correlated, a pattern inconsistent with current theory regarding the evolution of phenotypic plasticity.
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