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SUBMITTER: Bailey LD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5434090 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bailey Liam D LD Ens Bruno J BJ Both Christiaan C Heg Dik D Oosterbeek Kees K van de Pol Martijn M
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 20170601 1723
Phenotypic plasticity is a crucial mechanism for responding to changes in climatic means, yet we know little about its role in responding to extreme climatic events (ECEs). ECEs may lack the reliable cues necessary for phenotypic plasticity to evolve; however, this has not been empirically tested. We investigated whether behavioural plasticity in nest-site selection allows a long-lived shorebird (<i>Haematopus ostralegus</i>) to respond to flooding. We collected longitudinal nest elevation data ...[more]