Phenotypic diversity as an adaptation to environmental uncertainty

By Matina C. Donaldson-Matasci, M. Lachmann, Carl T. Bergstrom. 2008

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Fundamental Dimensions of Environmental Risk (2009, background): “Drawing on Donaldson-Matasci et al. (2008), this hypothesis can be further elaborated: Whereas longer-term environmental changes that affect entire populations of juveniles and can be handled by generalist strategies (e.”
Reduced sea water pH disrupts resource assessment and decision making in the hermit crab Pagurus bernhardus (2011, background): “Information gathering, although energetically costly, can be used to reduce ecological uncertainty; and behavioural plasticity, an evolutionary strategy that anticipates environmental variability, allows animals to respond to change on the basis of the information that they gather (Dall et al. 2005;”