摘要
Anthropogenic environmental change is the most significant threat to biodiversity in the 21st century.Animal populations are experiencing rapid changes in their biotic and abiotic environment,which impose novel selection pressures on organisms and increase the risk of population extinction.There is thus a pressing need to understand what affects the capacity of populations to respond and adapt to environmental change.Because behavioral traits are very labile,they provide a means of rapidly responding to environmental change(Sih et al.2011;Tuomainen and Candolin 2011).
基金
M.A.was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation(Early Postdoc Mobility Fellowship No.P2SKP3_184052)during part of the time devoted to this work.
