Data from: probing variation in reaction norms in wild populations: the importance of reliable environmental proxies ...

• Main Authors: Ramakers, Jip J. C., Reed, Thomas E., Harris, Michael, Gienapp, Phillip
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Dryad 2023
• Subjects: FOS Biological sciences; Uria aalge; laying date; NAO; common guillemot; uria
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.zcrjdfnjr; https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.zcrjdfnjr

Many traits are phenotypically plastic, i.e., the same genotype expresses different phenotypes depending on the environment. Genotypes and individuals can vary in their response to the environment and this genetic (G×E) and individual (I×E) variation in reaction-norm slopes can have important ecological or evolutionary consequences. Studies on I×E/G×E often fail to show slope variation, potentially due to the choice of the environmental covariate. Identifying the genuine environmental driver of phenotypic plasticity (the cue) is practically impossible and hence only proxies can be used. If the proxy is too weakly correlated with the cue, this may lead researchers to conclude there is little or no (variation in) plasticity, and hence lead to downwardly biased estimates of the potential for plastic responses (or evolutionary change in the slope) in response to environmental change. Alternatively, the Environment-Specific Mean phenotype (ESM) across individuals—which captures all environmental effects on the ... : Data contain phenotypic breeding data and NAO data for the Common guillemot as described in Reed et al. (2006). These data were used as one of the two practical examples in the paper. See the readme file for details. For questions regarding these data, please contact Michael P. Harris ([e-mail]). For R scripts used to analyze the data, please see the supporting information to the main article associated with this dataset (Ramakers et al. 2023). Ramakers, J.J.C., Reed, T.E., Harris, M.P. & Gienapp, P. (2023). Probing variation in reaction norms in wild populations: the importance of reliable environmental proxies. Oikos. doi: 10.1111/oik.09592 Reed, T.E., Wanless, S., Harris, M.P., Frederiksen, M., Kruuk, L.E.B. & Cunningham, E.J.A. (2006) Responding to environmental change: plastic responses vary little in a synchronous breeder. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 273, 2713-2719. ...