Competition alters species' plastic and genetic response to environmental change.

ABSTRACT: Species react to environmental change via plastic and evolutionary responses. While both of them determine species' survival, most studies quantify these responses individually. As species occur in communities, competing species may further influence their respective response to environmental change. Yet, how environmental change and competing species combined shape plastic and genetic responses to environmental change remains unclear. Quantifying how competition alters plastic and genetic responses of species to environmental change requires a trait-based, community and evolutionary ecological approach. We exposed unicellular aquatic organisms to long-term selection of increasing salinity-representing a common and relevant environmental change. We assessed plastic and genetic contribution

SUBMITTER: Govaert L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8651732 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature