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phenotypic plasticity

Scope: evolution
Papers: 114 | Mentions: 146

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Definition

When a genotype produces different phenotypes under differing environmental conditions

Related Terms (30)

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Publications (118)

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Effects of elevation on salamander life strategies

2025framework
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Is social plasticity good? Does lifetime social variation enhance LRS and longevity in yellow-bellied marmots?

2025central
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Relaxation of the leaf economics spectrum within and across quaking aspen Populus tremuloides genotypes

2025Oikoscentral
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Effects of water availability on expression of vegetative traits in Ipomopsis across space and time

2024central
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Climate mediates the trade-offs associated with phenotypic plasticity in an amphibian polyphenism

2024Journal of Animal Ecologycentral
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Polyphenism predicts actuarial senescence and lifespan in tiger salamanders

2024Journal of Animal Ecologycentral
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Investigating the Effect of Drought on Floral Traits Mediating Pollinator Interactions

2023framework
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The role of environmental variation in mediating fitness trade-offs for an amphibian polyphenism

2023Journal of Animal Ecologycentral
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The timing of reproduction is responding plastically, not genetically, to climate change in yellow-bellied marmots (Marmota flaviventer)

2023Ecology and Evolutioncentral
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Plasticity in Ipomopsis flower color and nectar production over space and time in response to water availability

2023central
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The Boechera model system for evolutionary ecology

2022American Journal of Botanycentral
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Floral phenotypic response of <i> Ipomopsis aggregata </i> and related hybrids to changing soil moisture and nitrogen enrichment

2022central
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The Effect of Climate Change on Soil Organic Carbon over an Elevational Gradient

2022referenced
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Snowmelt Timing Leads to Plasticity and Alters Natural Selection on Leaf Traits in <i> Ipomopsis </i>

2022central
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Bumble bee queen plasticity and social regulation of traits

2022primary focus
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Estimating the heritability of female dispersal in yellow-bellied marmots

2022framework
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Earlier snow melt and reduced summer precipitation alter floral traits important to pollination

2022Global Change Biologyprimary focus
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Phenotypic plasticity and selection on leaf traits in response to snowmelt timing and summer precipitation

2022New Phytologistcentral
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Genetic and spatial variation in vegetative and floral traits across a hybrid zone

2022American Journal of Botanyframework
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Understanding Organismal Capacity to Respond to Anthropogenic Change: Barriers and Solutions

2021Integrative and Comparative Biologycentral
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The Influence of Summer Precipitation and Temperature on Golden Mantled Ground Squirrel Pup Foraging.

2021central
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The spatial variation of leaf traits in <i> Ipomopsis </i> according to soil moisture and snow depth

2021framework
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On the structure and significance of ecological niche breadth

2021framework
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Heritable variation in the timing of emergence from hibernation

2020Evolutionary Ecologycentral
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Small spaces, big impacts: contributions of micro-environmental variation to population persistence under climate change

2020AOB Plantscentral
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Experience may outweigh cue similarity in maintaining a persistent host plant-based evolutionary trap.

2020Ecological Monographs. doi 10.1002/ecm.1412framework
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Impacts of snowmelt timing and precipitation on the expression of vegetative traits and floral traits in <i>Ipomopsis aggregata</i>

2020central
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Heritability of Maternal Investment in Golden Mantled Ground Squirrels (<i>Callospermophilus lateralis</i>)

2020framework
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The impact of climate change on Rocky Mountain plant communities: Differences in floral trait along an elevational gradient of transplanted communities

2019central
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The persistent maladaptation of <i>Pieris macdunnoughii</i>: Constraints on adaptation to an evolutionary trap

2019primary focus
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Lifetime Fitness, Sex-Specific Life History, and the Maintenance of a Polyphenism

2019The American Naturalistcentral
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Phenology as a process rather than an event: from individual reaction norms to community metrics

2019Ecological Monographs doi 10.1002/ecm.1352framework
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Two-year bee or not two-year bee? How voltinism is affected by temperature and season length in a high-elevation solitary bee

2019American Naturalistcentral
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Phenotypic plasticity of floral volatiles in response to increasing drought stress

2019American Journal of Botanycentral
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The Effect of Climate Change on Plant Communities in the Rocky Mountains: How floral traits differ along an elevational gradient and in reciprocally transplanted communities

2018referenced
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The impacts of early snowmelt and summer precipitation on the physiology and leaf morphology of <i>Ipomopsis aggregata</i>

2018central
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Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome

2018Naturecontext
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Heritable plant phenotypes track light and herbivory levels at fine spatial scales

2018Oecologiacentral
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Ecological causes and consequences of flower color polymorphism in a self pollinating plant (<i>Boechera stricta</i>)

2018New Phytologistcentral
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The Relationship between Soil Properties and Variation in the Morphology and Phenology of non-native mustard plant <i>Thlaspi arvense</i> in Subalpine Meadows

2018central
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Plant-pollinator interactions under climate change: the use of spatial and temporal transplants

2017Applications in Plant Sciencescentral
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Phenological responses to multiple environmental drivers under climate change: insights from a long-term observational study and a manipulative field experiment

2017tested
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Phenology and Phenotypic Variation of <i>Thlaspi arvense</i> Along an Elevational Gradient

2017central
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Is Compensatory Growth Costly?

2017framework
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Climate Change Affects Boechera stricta Genotypes Through Local Maladaptation

2017referenced
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Biotic and abiotic drivers of plant symbionts determine plant performance, the maintenance of diversity, and response to global change

2017context
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Biotic and abiotic drivers of plant symbionts determine plant performance, the maintenance of diversity, and response to global change

2017primary focus
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Phenological shifts of native and invasive species under climate change: insights from the <i>Boechera Lythrum</i> model

2017Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciencesreferenced
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Detrending phenological time series improves climate-phenology analyses and reveals evidence of plasticity

2017Ecologycentral
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Can individual variation in phenotypic plasticity enhance population viability?

2017Ecological Modelingcentral
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Modeling the population dynamics and community impacts of <i>Ambystoma tigrinum</i>: A case study of phenotype plasticity

2017Mathematical Biosciencescentral
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Caddisfly behavioral responses to drying cues in temporary ponds: Implications for effects of climate change

2016Freshwater Scienceframework
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Pattern and variation of the time budget of yellow-bellied marmots.

2016Ethology, Ecology and Evolutionframework
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Delving deeper: Questioning the decline of long-tongued bumble bees, long-tubed flowers and their mutualisms with climate change

2016Journal of Pollination Ecologytested
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Historical changes in thermoregulatory traits of alpine butterflies reveal complex ecological and evolutionary responses to recent climate change

2016Climate Change Responsescentral
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Individual variation in plant traits drives species interactions, ecosystem functioning, and responses to global change.

2016context
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The Visual Ecology of <i>Speyeria mormonia</i>

2016primary focus
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Plasticity in functional traits in the context of climate change: A case study of the subalpine forb Boechera stricta (Brassicaceae)

2015Global Change Biologycentral
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Pattern and variation of the time budget of yellow-bellied marmots

2015Ethology, Ecology and Evolutiontested
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Scaling from traits to ecosystems: Developing a general trait driver theory via integrating trait-based and metabolic scaling theories

2015Advances in Ecological Researchcontext
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Group size affects social relationships in yellow-bellied marmots <i>(Marmota flaviventris)</i>

2015Behavioral Ecologycentral
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Adaptation to climate and climate change in Rocky Mountain butterflies: Morphology, physiology, and behavior

2015context
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Environmentally induced phenotypic variation in wild yellow-bellied marmots

2015Journal of Mammalogytested
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Elevational and temporal variation in Ipomopsis floral and vegetative traits.

2015tested
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Geographic variation in flowering phenology in Boechera stricta: testing for adaptive response to climate across the species range

2015referenced
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Environmentally induced phenotypic variation in wild yellow-bellied marmots

2015Journal of Mammalogycentral
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Rapid evolution and population divergence in response to environmental change in <i>Colias</i> butterlies

2014framework
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The evolution of quantitative traits in complex environments

2014Hereditycentral
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Yellow-bellied marmots do not compensate for a late start: the role of maternal investment in shaping life-history trajectories

2014Evolutionary Ecologyreferenced
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Revisiting Darwin's hypothesis: Does greater intraspecific variability increase species' ecological breadth?

2014American Journal of Botanyreferenced
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Plant community light efficiency: measuring light response as a function of both photosynthesis irradiance.

2014tested
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Plasticity and changes in selection in response to changing precipitation regimes

2013central
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Trait variations of <i>Boechera stricta</i> along an elevation gradient

2013central
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Costs of predator-induced phenotypic plasticity: A graphical model for predicting the contribution of non-consumptive and consumptive effects of predators on prey

2013Oecologiaframework
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Scale of plasticity and local adaptation in <i>Boechera stricta </i> along an altitudinal gradient

2013central
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Scale of plasticity and local adaptation in <i>Boechera stricta </i> along an altitudinal gradient

2013measured
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Variation in root morphology and allocation of <i>Androsace septentrionalis</i> along a natural elevation/climate gradient

2013referenced
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The effects of flowering phenology and plant fitness within and across a light quality gradient for a native mustard, <i>Cardamine cordifolia</i>

2012referenced
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Plant responses to the joint effects of herbivores and pollinators

2012context
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Phenotypic plasticity and adaptive evolution contribute to advancing flowering phenology in response to climate change

2012Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciencescentral
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Evolutionary and ecological responses to anthropogenic climate change

2012Plant Physiologycentral
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Larval growth in polyphenic salamanders: making the best of a bad lot

2012Oecologiaframework
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Increased aggression among <i>Asynarchus nigriculus</i> caddisfly larvae in a rapidly drying environment

2012framework
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Intraspecific variation of specific leaf area along an elevational gradient

2011tested
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Life history QTLs and natural selection on flowering time in <i></i>Boechera stricta<i></i>, a perennial relative of <i></i>Arabidopsis<i></i>

2011Evolutionmeasured
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Ecological causes and consequences of flower color polymorphism in <i>Boechera stricta</i>

2011framework
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Local adaptation to habitat-specific herbivory and light levels in <i>Cardamine cordifolia</i>

2011central
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Coupled dynamics of body mass and population growth in response to environmental change

2010Naturecentral
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Color polymorphism in <i>Boechera stricta</i> due to phenotypic plasticity and reproductive advantage

2010central
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Reinforcing abiotic and biotic time constraints facilitate the broad distribution of a generalist with fixed traits

2010Ecologytested
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Environmental forces drive morphological variation in an alpine annual plant

2009referenced
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Effects of larval energetic resources on life history and adult allocation patterns in a caddisfly (Trichoptera: Phryganeidae)

2007Ecological Entomologycentral
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The effect of ants on membracid nymph size and instar

2007framework
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The effects of water and phosphorus on floral traits and nectar production of <i>Ipomopsis aggregata</i>

2007framework
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Physiological and Morphological Changes in Ipomopsis aggregata Along an Elevational Gradient

2006framework
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Floral larceny: Implications, resistance, and the potential for tolerance

2006context
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Emergence cues of a mayfly in a high-altitude stream ecosystem: Potential response to climate change

2006Ecological Applicationsframework
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Evolutionary ecology of facultative paedomorphosis in news and salamanders

2005Biological Reviewsframework
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Are populations of mayflies living in adjacent fish and fishless streams genetically differentiated?

2005Freshwater Biologycentral
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Intraspecific variation in marmots

2005Contribuciones Mastozoologicas en Homenaje a Bernarda Villacentral
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Invasive <i>Linaria vulgaris</i>, disturbance, and diversity: associations at multiple spatial scales in Colorado

2004framework
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Lack of appropriate behavioral or development responses by mayfly larvae to trout predators

2003Ecologycentral
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Does living in streams with fish involve a cost of induced morphological defense?

2003Canadian Journal of Zoologyframework
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Induced morphological defenses in the wild: predator effects on a mayfly, <i>Drunella coloradensis</i>

2002Ecologycentral
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Variation in mayfly size at metamorphosis as a developmental response to risk of predation

2001Ecologycentral
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Growth and foraging consequences of facultative paedomorphosis in the tiger salamander, <i>Ambystoma tigrinum nebulosum</i>

1996Evolutionary Ecologyframework
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Growth and survival of juvenile yellow-bellied marmots (<i>Marmota flaviventris</i>)

1996Canadian Journal of Zoologyframework
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Vascular Plants of the Gothic Area

1993framework