Interpreting rejections of the beneficial acclimation hypothesis: when is physiological plasticity adaptive?

Abstract excerpt

Although many studies testing the beneficial acclimation hypothesis have rejected it, what these rejections imply about the adaptive value of physiological change remains unclear. Uncertainty arises because the hypothesis focuses on the relative performance of organisms exposed to one environment versus another, whereas the raw material available to evolution is variation in acclimation responses of individual...

Topics

• Acclimatization
• Adaptation, Biological
• Environment
• Models, Biological
• Models, Genetic
• Phenotype
• Population