Do I build or do I move? Adaptation by habitat construction versus habitat choice.

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Trait adaptation to a heterogeneous environment can occur through six modes: genetic differentiation of those traits, a jack-of-all-trades phenotypic uniformity, diversified bet-hedging, phenotypic plasticity, habitat choice, and habitat construction. A key question is what circumstances favor one mode over another, and how they might interact if a system can express more than one mode at a time. We examined the...

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