Selection on Heritable Phenotypic Plasticity in a Wild Bird Population

By D. Nussey, E. Postma, P. Gienapp, M. Visser. Science, 2005

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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In Ecology

1. Francisco Pulido
2. Alastair J. Wilson
3. D. Nussey
4. Denis Réale
5. M. Visser
6. P. Gienapp
7. P. Henry
8. C. Rahbek

In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. Francisco Pulido
2. Alastair J. Wilson
3. P. Henry
4. L. Kruuk
5. D. Nussey
6. M. Visser
7. P. Gienapp
8. Denis Réale

Citations in the corpus

• Bird migration times, climate change, and changing population sizes (2008, background): “Thus, individuals that arrive early in warm seasons, when favorable breeding ground conditions occur earlier, may have higher fitness than individuals that do not adjust migration times with changing temperatures (Nussey et al., 2005).”
• Individual flexibility in energy saving: body size and condition constrain torpor use (2013, methodology): “Individual intercepts bi1 (also called elevation; Nussey et al. 2005) and individual slopes bi2 were estimated with the model (Fig.”
• Keeping up with a warming world; assessing the rate of adaptation to climate change (2008, background): “In the great tit, for example (Nussey et al. 2005), no such response was detected.”
• Shifts in caterpillar biomass phenology due to climate change and its impact on the breeding biology of an insectivorous bird (2006, background): “We have indeed detected selection on the reaction norm for the Hoge Veluwe population, but surprisingly the selection was stronger on the temperature sensitivity, that is, the slope of the reaction norm, than on the laying date in the average environment, that is, the intercept (Nussey et al. 2005).”
• Impact of climate change on migratory birds: community reassembly versus adaptation (2007, background): “If changes are profound, species interactions might be disrupted (Niemela et al. , 2001, Nussey et al. , 2005).”
• The evolutionary ecology of individual phenotypic plasticity in wild populations (2007, methodology): “Other research has used least-squares regression of repeated measures of individual phenotype on environment to demonstrate that individuals differ in their reaction norm slope (I · E present) in wild vertebrate populations (Brommer et al., 2003; Nussey et al., 2005a).”
• Personality traits in wild starlings: exploration behavior and environmental sensitivity (2009, background): “2008), some studies find significant individual variation in response (individuals can be plastic to different degrees, e.g., Brommer et al. 2005; Nussey et al. 2005), whereas others find the same degree of plasticity for all individuals (e.”
• Climate change, adaptation, and phenotypic plasticity: the problem and the evidence (2014, background): “…of individual plasticity to the population level can explain temporal trends in mean phenotypes, then plasticity might be considered a sufficient explanation for the population trend (Przybylo et al. 2000; Schiegg et al. 2002; Brommer et al. 2005; Nussey et al. 2005; Reed et al. 2006).”
• Native predators and exotic prey –an acquired taste? (2009, background): “Phenotypic plasticity – where organisms fine-tune their behavior, life history, or morphology during the individual’s lifetime to match a changing environment – is common in nature (Nussey et al. 2005).”
• Measuring individual differences in reaction norms in field and experimental studies: a power analysis of random regression models (2011, methodology): “This practice has been common in field studies to date (Brommer et al. 2005; Nussey et al. 2005a,b;Reed et al.2006;Charmantier et al. 2008) and is based on the intuitivepremise thatan individual’splasticity, definedas the slope of its response to environment, cannot be determined for a trait…”
• Biogeographical variation in the diet of Holarctic martens (genus Martes, Mammalia: Carnivora: Mustelidae): adaptive foraging in generalists (2011, background): “…vulnerability of the genus to global climate change, especially given that this has driven many other species to shift their distributional ranges (Parmesan, 2006), phenology (Visser & Both, 2005; Cleland et al., 2007) and life-history traits (Nussey et al., 2005; Chamaillé-Jammes et al., 2006).”