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

被引：973

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

来源：

SCIENCE | 2008年 / 320卷 / 5877期

基金：

英国生物技术与生命科学研究理事会;

关键词：

D O I：

10.1126/science.1157174

中图分类号：

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];

学科分类号：

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.

引用

页码：800 / 803

页数：4

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