scholarly journals Quantitative Assessment of the Importance of Phenotypic Plasticity in Adaptation to Climate Change in Wild Bird Populations

PLoS Biology ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. e1001605 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oscar Vedder ◽  
Sandra Bouwhuis ◽  
Ben C. Sheldon
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Phenotypic Plasticity ◽  
Wild Bird ◽  
Quantitative Assessment ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
Bird Populations

Pre‐adaptation to climate change through topography‐driven phenotypic plasticity

2020 ◽  
Vol 108 (4) ◽  
pp. 1465-1474 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanne De Kort ◽  
Bart Panis ◽  
Kenny Helsen ◽  
Rolland Douzet ◽  
Steven B. Janssens ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Phenotypic Plasticity ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change

Adaptive Phenotypic Plasticity in Response to Climate Change in a Wild Bird Population

Science ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 320 (5877) ◽  
pp. 800-803 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Charmantier ◽  
R. H. McCleery ◽  
L. R. Cole ◽  
C. Perrins ◽  
L. E. B. Kruuk ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Phenotypic Plasticity ◽  
Wild Bird ◽  
Bird Population ◽  
Adaptive Phenotypic Plasticity

Evolutionary consequences of climate change in birds

2019 ◽  
pp. 134-146
Author(s):  
Céline Teplitsky ◽  
Anne Charmantier
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Wild Bird ◽  
Genetic Correlations ◽  
Evolutionary Potential ◽  
Selection Pressures ◽  
Bird Populations ◽  
Rapid Climate Change ◽  
Overwhelming Evidence ◽  
Evolutionary Trajectories ◽  
Evolutionary Consequences

There is now overwhelming evidence that the recent rapid climate change has multiple consequences for birds: their abilities to adapt to climate change is thus a major issue. To understand the evolutionary consequences of climate change, an assessment of how it alters selection pressures is needed. As expected, climate change increases selection for earlier breeding but non-intuitive selection patterns are likely to arise for traits other than phenology. Evolutionary responses to these new selection pressures depend on the evolutionary potential in wild bird populations. Heritability alone is not sufficient to predict responses to selection, as many genetic factors (e.g., genetic correlations, indirect genetic effects) can affect evolutionary trajectories. Altogether, studies investigating the nature of responses to climate change in wild populations (plastic vs microevolutionary responses) are still scarce but suggest that the majority of responses would be due to plasticity.

scholarly journals Snowshoe hares display limited phenotypic plasticity to mismatch in seasonal camouflage

2014 ◽  
Vol 281 (1782) ◽  
pp. 20140029 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marketa Zimova ◽  
L. Scott Mills ◽  
Paul M. Lukacs ◽  
Michael S. Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Natural Selection ◽  
Phenotypic Plasticity ◽  
Coat Colour ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
Snowshoe Hares ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Adaptive Solution ◽  
Snow Conditions ◽  
Study Sites

As duration of snow cover decreases owing to climate change, species undergoing seasonal colour moults can become colour mismatched with their background. The immediate adaptive solution to this mismatch is phenotypic plasticity, either in phenology of seasonal colour moults or in behaviours that reduce mismatch or its consequences. We observed nearly 200 snowshoe hares across a wide range of snow conditions and two study sites in Montana, USA, and found minimal plasticity in response to mismatch between coat colour and background. We found that moult phenology varied between study sites, likely due to differences in photoperiod and climate, but was largely fixed within study sites with only minimal plasticity to snow conditions during the spring white-to-brown moult. We also found no evidence that hares modify their behaviour in response to colour mismatch. Hiding and fleeing behaviours and resting spot preference of hares were more affected by variables related to season, site and concealment by vegetation, than by colour mismatch. We conclude that plasticity in moult phenology and behaviours in snowshoe hares is insufficient for adaptation to camouflage mismatch, suggesting that any future adaptation to climate change will require natural selection on moult phenology or behaviour.

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