Phenotypic plasticity as a cause and consequence of population dynamics
Phenotypic plasticity as a cause and consequence of population dynamics
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DOI：
10.1111/ele.13862
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发表时间：
2021-08-19
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8.8
通讯作者：
White, Steven M.
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作者：
Brass, Dominic P.;Cobbold, Christina A.;White, Steven M.
预测复杂的物种-环境相互作用对于在动态变化的世界中指导保护和缓解战略至关重要。表型可塑性是一种性状变异的机制，它决定了个体和群体如何适应不断变化的新环境。对于个体来说，表型可塑性的影响可以通过测量环境-性状关系来量化，但通常很难预测表型可塑性如何影响种群。认为为个体验证的环境-特征关系表明群体如何应对环境变化的假设通常是没有充分理由的。在这里，我们推导了一个新的通用数学框架，将表型可塑性引起的性状变异与种群动态联系起来。将该框架应用于尼科尔森苍蝇的经典例子，我们展示了从环境-特征关系中做出的看似合理的预测如何不能推广到种群反应。因此，没有纳入人口反馈的基于特征的分析有可能错误地描述环境变化对人口的影响。
Predicting complex species-environment interactions is crucial for guiding conservation and mitigation strategies in a dynamically changing world. Phenotypic plasticity is a mechanism of trait variation that determines how individuals and populations adapt to changing and novel environments. For individuals, the effects of phenotypic plasticity can be quantified by measuring environment-trait relationships, but it is often difficult to predict how phenotypic plasticity affects populations. The assumption that environment-trait relationships validated for individuals indicate how populations respond to environmental change is commonly made without sufficient justification. Here we derive a novel general mathematical framework linking trait variation due to phenotypic plasticity to population dynamics. Applying the framework to the classical example of Nicholson's blowflies, we show how seemingly sensible predictions made from environment-trait relationships do not generalise to population responses. As a consequence, trait-based analyses that do not incorporate population feedbacks risk mischaracterising the effect of environmental change on populations.