Metapopulation Structure Favors Plasticity over Local Adaptation

By S. Sultan, Hamish G. Spencer. American Naturalist, 2002

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Sociology and Political Science

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Promising directions in plant phenotypic plasticity (2004, background): “To the extent that plasticity confers adaptive flexibility on individual genotypes, it will influence natural selection and consequently patterns of diversification among populations and ultimately species (see theoretical models by Scheiner 1998; Sultan & Spencer 2002; and references therein).”
Underappreciated Consequences of Phenotypic Plasticity for Ecological Speciation (2012, background): “When plasticity is costly enough to outweigh its fitness benefits, possible alternative outcomes are the evolution of a single “compromise” or generalist phenotype, evolution of a simple genetic “switch” enabling coexistence of alternative specialist phenotypes [14, 15, 86], or divergent evolution o”
Genotype-by-Environment Interaction and Plasticity: Exploring Genomic Responses of Plants to the Abiotic Environment (2013, background): “…correlation perspectives (deJong 1985), been generalized to continuous environmental variation and functionvalued traits (Gomulkiewicz & Kirkpatrick 1992, Stinchcombe et al. 2012), and introduced costs of plasticity (van Tienderen 1991) and aspects of population structure (Sultan & Spencer 2002).”
Genetic and environmental contributions to the morphology of lake and stream stickleback: implications for gene flow and reproductive isolation (2008, neutral): “Scheiner, 1998; Sultan and Spencer, 2002; Crispo, 2008).”
Re-evaluating the costs and limits of adaptive phenotypic plasticity (2010, background): “Alternatively , Sultan & Spencer (2002), in an extension of a model by Moran (1992), demonstrated that 'global costs' (e.g. maintenance costs) constrain the evolution of plasticity to a much greater extent than 'local costs' (e.g.”
Integrating micro- and macroevolutionary processes in community ecology (2003, background): “…hand, plasticity may provide an alternative to speciation, because plastic individuals can successfully colonize a wide range of habitat types, and genetic differentiation of populations or formation of ecotypes in different habitats may not be necessary (Sultan 1995, Sultan and Spencer 2002).”
The effects of phenotypic plasticity and local adaptation on forecasts of species range shifts under climate change. (2014, background): “In this regard, further modelling approaches may be enriched by incorporating the consequences of migration and gene flow on local plasticity patterns and overall adaptation to climate change (Sultan & Spencer 2002).”
Adaptive phenotypic plasticity and resilience of vertebrates to increasing climatic unpredictability. (2010, background): “In highly unstable environments, unpredictable duration and intensity of favourable and unfavourable conditions select for the evolution of such trait flexibility (Sultan & Spencer 2002).”
GENETIC ISOLATION BY ENVIRONMENT OR DISTANCE: WHICH PATTERN OF GENE FLOW IS MOST COMMON? (2014, background): “Under counter-gradient or high levels of gene flow, selection for plasticity and epigenetic effects are expected to be particularly strong, because counter-gradient or high gene flow should limit the potential for local, genetically based adaptation (Sultan and Spencer 2002; Scheiner et al. 2012).”
Developmental plasticity and human health (2004, background): “Relevant factors include the variability of the environment, the presence of reliable environmental cues to produce an adaptive response and the rate of environmental change relative to the length of the life cycle of the species in questio”
The role of phenotypic plasticity in driving genetic evolution (2003, background): “The first arises if there is a cost to plasticity per se (de Witt et al. 1998; Ancel 1999, 2000; Sultan & Spencer 2002).”
Ecological and evolutionary responses of Mediterranean plants to global change. (2014, positive): “This can lead to the maintenance of genetic – and epigenetic – variation both at the within- and among-population level (Sultan and Bazzaz, 1993; Sultan and Spencer, 2002; Byers, 2005; Bossdorf et al., 2008), which can in turn have profound implications for subsequent adaptation to global change, si”