Adaptive and nonadaptive plasticity in changing environments: Implications for sexual species with different life history strategies.

ABSTRACT: Populations adapt to novel environmental conditions by genetic changes or phenotypic plasticity. Plastic responses are generally faster and can buffer fitness losses under variable conditions. Plasticity is typically modeled as random noise and linear reaction norms that assume simple one-to-one genotype-phenotype maps and no limits to the phenotypic response. Most studies on plasticity have focused on its effect on population viability. However, it is not clear, whether the advantage of plasticity depends solely on environmental fluctuations or also on the genetic and demographic properties (life histories) of populations. Here we present an individual-based model and study the relative importance of adaptive and nonadaptive plasticity for populations of sexual species with different life

SUBMITTER: Romero-Mujalli D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8207414 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature