Age-dependent effects of moderate differences in environmental predictability forecasted by climate change, experimental evidence from a short-lived lizard (Zootoca vivipara)

dc.contributor.authorMasó, G.
dc.contributor.authorKaufmann, Joshka
dc.contributor.authorClavero, H.
dc.contributor.authorFitze, P. S.
dc.contributor.funderSchweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschungen
dc.contributor.funderSpanish Ministry of Education and Scienceen
dc.date.accessioned2019-12-04T10:41:31Z
dc.date.available2019-12-04T10:41:31Z
dc.date.issued2019-10-29
dc.description.abstractWhether and how differences in environmental predictability affect life-history traits is controversial and may depend on mean environmental conditions. Solid evidence for effects of environmental predictability are lacking and thus, the consequences of the currently observed and forecasted climate-change induced reduction of precipitation predictability are largely unknown. Here we experimentally tested whether and how changes in the predictability of precipitation affect growth, reproduction, and survival of common lizard Zootoca vivipara. Precipitation predictability affected all three age classes. While adults were able to compensate the treatment effects, yearlings and juvenile females were not able to compensate negative effects of less predictable precipitation on growth and body condition, respectively. Differences among the age-classes’ response reflect differences (among age-classes) in the sensitivity to environmental predictability. Moreover, effects of environmental predictability depended on mean environmental conditions. This indicates that integrating differences in environmental sensitivity, and changes in averages and the predictability of climatic variables will be key to understand whether species are able to cope with the current climatic change.en
dc.description.sponsorshipSwiss National Science Foundation (PPOOP3_128375, PP00P3_152929/1 AEI/FEDER); National Program FPU (FPU 13/03291); Spanish Ministry of Education and Science (CGL2008-01522, CGL2012-32459, CGL2016-76918P)en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.articleid15546en
dc.identifier.doi10.1038/s41598-019-51955-7en
dc.identifier.eissn2045-2322
dc.identifier.endpage10en
dc.identifier.issued1en
dc.identifier.journaltitleScientific Reportsen
dc.identifier.startpage1en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/9314
dc.identifier.volume9en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherSpringer Natureen
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dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectClimate change ecologyen
dc.subjectEvolutionary ecologyen
dc.subjectPopulation dynamicsen
dc.subjectProjection and predictionen
dc.subjectTheoretical ecologyen
dc.titleAge-dependent effects of moderate differences in environmental predictability forecasted by climate change, experimental evidence from a short-lived lizard (Zootoca vivipara)en
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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