期刊
AMERICAN NATURALIST
卷 193, 期 6, 页码 798-813出版社
UNIV CHICAGO PRESS
DOI: 10.1086/703171
关键词
phenotypic plasticity; environmental tolerance; range shift; range expansion; environmental change; genetic assimilation
资金
- Swiss National Science Foundation [PP00P3_144846, PP00P3_176965]
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) [PP00P3_144846, PP00P3_176965] Funding Source: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
While clines in environmental tolerance and phenotypic plasticity along a single species' range have been reported repeatedly and are of special interest in the context of adaptation to environmental changes, we know little about their evolution. Recent empirical findings in ectotherms suggest that processes underlying dynamic species' ranges can give rise to spatial differences in environmental tolerance and phenotypic plasticity within species. We used individual-based simulations to investigate how plasticity and tolerance evolve in the course of three scenarios of species' range shifts and range expansions on environmental gradients. We found that regions of a species' range that experienced a longer history or larger extent of environmental change generally exhibited increased plasticity or tolerance. Such regions may be at the trailing edge when a species is tracking its ecological niche in space (e.g., in a climate change scenario) or at the front edge when a species expands into a new habitat (e.g., in an expansion/invasion scenario). Elevated tolerance and plasticity in the distribution center was detected when asymmetric environmental change (e.g., polar amplification) led to a range expansion. However, tolerance and plasticity clines were transient and slowly flattened out after range dynamics because of genetic assimilation.
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