Behaviour, life history and persistence in novel environments.

ABSTRACT: Understanding what affects population growth in novel environments is fundamental to forecast organisms' responses to global change, including biological invasions and land use intensification. Novel environments are challenging because they can cause maladaptation, increasing the risk of extinction by negative population growth. Animals can avoid extinction by improving the phenotype-environment match through behavioural responses, notably matching habitat choice and learning. However, the demographic consequences of these responses remain insufficiently understood in part because they have not been analysed within a life-history context. By means of an individual-based model, we show here that matching habitat choice and learning interact with life history to influence persistence in nov

SUBMITTER: Maspons J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6710578 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature