Matching habitat choice and plasticity contribute to phenotype–environment covariation in a stream salamander

Ecology ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 100 (5) ◽  
pp. e02661 ◽  
Author(s):  
Winsor H. Lowe ◽  
Brett R. Addis
Keyword(s):  
Habitat Choice ◽  
Matching Habitat Choice

scholarly journals Local adaptation and matching habitat choice in female barn owls with respect to melanic coloration

2011 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. N. DREISS ◽  
S. ANTONIAZZA ◽  
R. BURRI ◽  
L. FUMAGALLI ◽  
C. SONNAY ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Local Adaptation ◽  
Habitat Choice ◽  
Barn Owls ◽  
Matching Habitat Choice

scholarly journals Matching habitat choice promotes species persistence under climate change

Oikos ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 128 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Félix Pellerin ◽  
Julien Cote ◽  
Elvire Bestion ◽  
Robin Aguilée
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Habitat Choice ◽  
Species Persistence ◽  
Matching Habitat Choice

scholarly journals Matching habitat choice: it's not for everyone

Oikos ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 129 (5) ◽  
pp. 689-699 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Camacho ◽  
Andrew P. Hendry
Keyword(s):  
Habitat Choice ◽  
Matching Habitat Choice

scholarly journals Phenotype manipulation influences microhabitat choice in pygmy grasshoppers

2012 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 392-400 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lena Wennersten ◽  
Einat Karpestam ◽  
Anders Forsman
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Genetic Structure ◽  
Habitat Choice ◽  
Behavioural Plasticity ◽  
Behavioral Differences ◽  
Initial Stage ◽  
Color Morphs ◽  
Microhabitat Choice ◽  
Genetically Determined ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Matching Habitat Choice

Abstract The matching habitat choice hypothesis posits that individuals actively choose those microhabitats that best match their specific phenotype to maximize fitness. Despite the profound implications, matching habitat choice has not been unequivocally demonstrated. We conducted two experiments to examine the impact of pigmentation pattern in the color polymorphic pygmy grasshopper Tetrix subulata on habitat choice in a laboratory thermal mosaic arena. We found no behavioral differences in the thermal mosaic among pygmy grasshoppers belonging to either pale, intermediate or dark natural color morphs. However, after manipulating the grasshoppers’ phenotype, the utilization through time of warmer and colder parts of the arena was different for black-painted and white-painted individuals. White-painted individuals used warmer parts of the arena, at least during the initial stage of the experiment. We conclude that microhabitat choice represents a form of behavioural plasticity. Thus, even if the choice itself is flexible and not genetically determined, it can still lead to spatial genetic structure in the population because the phenotypes themselves may be genetically mediated.

The influence of imperfect matching habitat choice on evolution in source–sink environments

2015 ◽  
Vol 29 (6) ◽  
pp. 887-904 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert D. Holt ◽  
Michael Barfield
Keyword(s):  
Habitat Choice ◽  
Source Sink ◽  
Matching Habitat Choice

Matching habitat choice by experimentally mismatched phenotypes

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 893-907 ◽  
Author(s):  
Einat Karpestam ◽  
Lena Wennersten ◽  
Anders Forsman
Keyword(s):  
Habitat Choice ◽  
Matching Habitat Choice

scholarly journals Behaviour, life history and persistence in novel environments

2019 ◽  
Vol 374 (1781) ◽  
pp. 20180056 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan Maspons ◽  
Roberto Molowny-Horas ◽  
Daniel Sol
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Population Growth ◽  
Environmental Changes ◽  
Extinction Risk ◽  
Adaptive Strategy ◽  
Habitat Choice ◽  
Life History Strategies ◽  
Behavioural Responses ◽  
Novel Environments ◽  
Matching Habitat Choice

Understanding what affects population growth in novel environments is fundamental to forecast organisms' responses to global change, including biological invasions and land use intensification. Novel environments are challenging because they can cause maladaptation, increasing the risk of extinction by negative population growth. Animals can avoid extinction by improving the phenotype–environment match through behavioural responses, notably matching habitat choice and learning. However, the demographic consequences of these responses remain insufficiently understood in part because they have not been analysed within a life-history context. By means of an individual-based model, we show here that matching habitat choice and learning interact with life history to influence persistence in novel environments. In maladaptive contexts, the likelihood of persisting is higher for life-history strategies that increase the value of adults over the value of offspring, even at the cost of decreasing reproduction. Such a strategy facilitates persistence in novel environments by reducing the costs of a reproductive failure while increasing the benefits of behavioural responses. Our results reinforce the view that a more predictive theory for extinction risk under rapid environmental changes requires considering behavioural responses and life history as part of a common adaptive strategy to cope with environmental changes. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Linking behaviour to dynamics of populations and communities: application of novel approaches in behavioural ecology to conservation’.

scholarly journals Personality-matching habitat choice, rather than behavioural plasticity, is a likely driver of a phenotype–environment covariance

2017 ◽  
Vol 284 (1864) ◽  
pp. 20170943 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benedikt Holtmann ◽  
Eduardo S. A. Santos ◽  
Carlos E. Lara ◽  
Shinichi Nakagawa
Keyword(s):  
Human Disturbance ◽  
Developmental Plasticity ◽  
Random Distribution ◽  
Animal Personality ◽  
Habitat Choice ◽  
Behavioural Plasticity ◽  
Personality Matching ◽  
Behavioural Adjustment ◽  
Management And Conservation ◽  
Matching Habitat Choice

An emerging hypothesis of animal personality posits that animals choose the habitat that best fits their personality, and that the match between habitat and personality can facilitate population differentiation, and eventually speciation. However, behavioural plasticity and the adjustment of behaviours to new environments have been a classical explanation for such matching patterns. Using a population of dunnocks ( Prunella modularis ), we empirically tested whether personality or behavioural plasticity is responsible for the non-random distribution of shy and bold individuals in a heterogeneous environment. We found evidence for bold individuals settling in areas with high human disturbance, but also that birds became bolder with increasing age. Importantly, personality primarily determines the distribution of individuals, and behavioural adjustment over time contributes very little to the observed patterns. We cannot, however, exclude a possibility of very early behavioural plasticity (a type of developmental plasticity) shaping what we refer to as ‘personality’. Nonetheless, our findings highlight the role personality plays in shaping population structure, lending support to the theory of personality-mediated speciation. Moreover, personality-matching habitat choice has important implications for population management and conservation.

scholarly journals Experimental evidence that matching habitat choice drives local adaptation in a wild population

2020 ◽  
Vol 287 (1927) ◽  
pp. 20200721 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Camacho ◽  
Alberto Sanabria-Fernández ◽  
Adrián Baños-Villalba ◽  
Pim Edelaar
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Evidence ◽  
Wild Population ◽  
Natural Populations ◽  
Habitat Choice ◽  
Urban Landscapes ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Variable Environments ◽  
Flexible Form ◽  
Matching Habitat Choice ◽  
Manipulation Experiment

Matching habitat choice is a unique, flexible form of habitat choice based on self-assessment of local performance. This mechanism is thought to play an important role in adaptation and population persistence in variable environments. Nevertheless, the operation of matching habitat choice in natural populations remains to be unequivocally demonstrated. We investigated the association between body colour and substrate use by ground-perching grasshoppers ( Sphingonotus azurescens ) in an urban mosaic of dark and pale pavements, and then performed a colour manipulation experiment to test for matching habitat choice based on camouflage through background matching. Naturally, dark and pale grasshoppers occurred mostly on pavements that provided matching backgrounds. Colour-manipulated individuals recapitulated this pattern, such that black-painted and white-painted grasshoppers recaptured after the treatment aggregated together on the dark asphalt and pale pavement, respectively. Our study demonstrates that grasshoppers adjust their movement patterns to choose the substrate that confers an apparent improvement in camouflage given their individual-specific colour. More generally, our study provides unique experimental evidence of matching habitat choice as a driver of phenotype–environment correlations in natural populations and, furthermore, suggests that performance-based habitat choice might act as a mechanism of adaptation to changing environments, including human-modified (urban) landscapes.

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