Journal
TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
Volume 30, Issue 8, Pages 487-496Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2015.06.003
Keywords
adaptive landscapes; community ecology; fitness components; global change; intraspecific trait covariation; multivariate trait distributions; phenotypic integration; species distribution model
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- Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Fund [UOW1201]
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Phenotypic traits influence species distributions, but ecology lacks established links between multidimensional phenotypes and fitness for predicting species responses to environmental change. The common focus on single traits rather than multiple trait combinations limits our understanding of their adaptive value, and intraspecific trait covariation has been neglected in ecology despite its importance in evolutionary theory and its likely impact on species distributions. Here, we extend the adaptive landscape framework to ecological sorting of multidimensional phenotypes across environments and discuss how two analytical approaches can be used to quantify fitness as a function of the interaction between the phenotype and the environment. We encourage ecologists to consider how phenotypic integration will constrain species responses to environmental change.
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