Adaptive phenotypic plasticity in response to climate change in a wild bird population

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作者
Charmantier, Anne [1 ,2 ]
McCleery, Robin H. [1 ]
Cole, Lionel R. [1 ]
Perrins, Chris [1 ]
Kruuk, Loeske E. B. [3 ]
Sheldon, Ben C. [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Oxford, Dept Zool, Edward Grey Inst, Oxford OX1 3PS, England
[2] CNRS, Ctr Ecol Fonct & Evolut, Unite Mixte Rech, F-34293 Montpellier 5, France
[3] Univ Edinburgh, Inst Evolut Biol, Sch Biol Sci, Edinburgh EH9 3JT, Midlothian, Scotland
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英国生物技术与生命科学研究理事会;
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10.1126/science.1157174
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
Rapid climate change has been implicated as a cause of evolution in poorly adapted populations. However, phenotypic plasticity provides the potential for organisms to respond rapidly and effectively to environmental change. Using a 47- year population study of the great tit ( Parus major) in the United Kingdom, we show that individual adjustment of behavior in response to the environment has enabled the population to track a rapidly changing environment very closely. Individuals were markedly invariant in their response to environmental variation, suggesting that the current response may be fixed in this population. Phenotypic plasticity can thus play a central role in tracking environmental change; understanding the limits of plasticity is an important goal for future research.
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