Sentence examples for adaptive plastic from inspiring English sources

One might also conjecture that the adaptive plastic response of the FAs in TAGs is constraining the adaptive plasticity of the PLs.

The synthesis on the trait changes in response to the expected reductions in hydroperiod and increases in salinity indicated little evidence for adaptive, plastic, and genetic trait changes and for local adaptation.

Importantly, the size, shape, and position of a species' fundamental niche may change through time as a consequence of adaptive, plastic, demographic, and stochastic processes operating on the underlying suite of organismal traits [22] [24].

Many adaptive plastic responses have been studied in other organisms, and it is well known that organisms change traits in response to direct signals from the objects to which they need to adapt [2], [but see 10], [23].

Adaptive plastic responses would weaken selection on genetically deterministic FA composition.

Here, we were able to induce an adaptive plastic response in the LPJ of A. citrinellus by feeding different diets.

Such a classical view seems to correctly predict a non-adaptive, plastic response commonly found in various taxa, but the scientific argument over evolutionary responses to ocean acidification is still at a starting point [29], [53].

Our results point to the importance of adaptive and plastic responses to both above and belowground resource availability in determining the allometric growth of trees and suggest that this diversity of responses may contribute tree species coexistence through competition-based trade-off mechanisms and variation in growth among individuals.

Therefore we use an experimental approach to directly test whether phenotypic variation in populations of swamp sparrows (Melospiza georgiana) is an adaptive or plastic response to divergent selection.

By raising individuals from different environments in a common laboratory environment (common garden) we can differentiate between adaptive and plastic responses to divergent environments.

and (iii) What factors influence whether the responses are adaptive or plastic?