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- Title
Do I build or do I move? Adaptation by habitat construction versus habitat choice<sup>*</sup>.
- Authors
Scheiner, Samuel M.; Barfield, Michael; Holt, Robert D.
- Abstract
Trait adaptation to a heterogeneous environment can occur through six modes: genetic differentiation of those traits, a jack‐of‐all‐trades phenotypic uniformity, diversified bet‐hedging, phenotypic plasticity, habitat choice, and habitat construction. A key question is what circumstances favor one mode over another, and how they might interact if a system can express more than one mode at a time. We examined the joint evolution of habitat choice and habitat construction using individual‐based simulations. We manipulated when during the life cycle construction occurred and the fitness value of construction. We found that for our model habitat construction was nearly always favored over habitat choice, especially if construction happened after dispersal. Because of the ways that the various modes of adaptation interact with each other, there is no simple answer as to which will be favored; it depends on details of the biology and ecology of a given system.
- Subjects
PHENOTYPIC plasticity; HABITATS
- Publication
Evolution, 2022, Vol 76, Issue 3, p414
- ISSN
0014-3820
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/evo.14355