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      Fitness of multidimensional phenotypes in dynamic adaptive landscapes

      Laughlin, Daniel C.; Messier, Julie
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      2015 laughlin messier Fitness of multidimensional phenotypes in dynamic adaptive landscapes accepted manuscript.docx
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       10.1016/j.tree.2015.06.003
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      Laughlin, D. C., & Messier, J. (2015). Fitness of multidimensional phenotypes in dynamic adaptive landscapes. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, in press.
      Permanent Research Commons link: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/9428
      Abstract
      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.
      Date
      2015
      Type
      Journal Article
      Publisher
      Elsevier
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      This is an author’s accepted version of an article published in the journal: Trends in Ecology & Evolution. © 2015 Elsevier.
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