TY - JOUR
T1 - How Individualized Niches Arise
T2 - Defining Mechanisms of Niche Construction, Niche Choice, and Niche Conformance
AU - Trappes, Rose
AU - Nematipour, Behzad
AU - Kaiser, Marie I.
AU - Krohs, Ulrich
AU - Benthem, Koen van
AU - Ernst, Ulrich
AU - Gadau, Jürgen
AU - Korsten, Peter
AU - Kurtz, Joachim
AU - Schielzeth, Holger
AU - Schmoll, Tim
AU - Takola, Elina
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Institute of Biological Sciences.
PY - 2022/6/1
Y1 - 2022/6/1
N2 - Organisms interact with their environments in various ways. We present a conceptual framework that distinguishes three mechanisms of organism–environment interaction. We call these NC3 mechanisms: niche construction, in which individuals make changes to the environment; niche choice, in which individuals select an environment; and niche conformance, in which individuals adjust their phenotypes in response to the environment. Each of these individual-level mechanisms affects an individual's phenotype–environment match, its fitness, and its individualized niche, defined in terms of the environmental conditions under which the individual can survive and reproduce. Our framework identifies how individuals alter the selective regimes that they and other organisms experience. It also places clear emphasis on individual differences and construes niche construction and other processes as evolved mechanisms. The NC3 mechanism framework therefore helps to integrate population-level and individual-level research.
AB - Organisms interact with their environments in various ways. We present a conceptual framework that distinguishes three mechanisms of organism–environment interaction. We call these NC3 mechanisms: niche construction, in which individuals make changes to the environment; niche choice, in which individuals select an environment; and niche conformance, in which individuals adjust their phenotypes in response to the environment. Each of these individual-level mechanisms affects an individual's phenotype–environment match, its fitness, and its individualized niche, defined in terms of the environmental conditions under which the individual can survive and reproduce. Our framework identifies how individuals alter the selective regimes that they and other organisms experience. It also places clear emphasis on individual differences and construes niche construction and other processes as evolved mechanisms. The NC3 mechanism framework therefore helps to integrate population-level and individual-level research.
KW - habitat choice
KW - individual differences
KW - individualized niche
KW - niche construction
KW - phenotypic plasticity
UR - https://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/publication/2955077
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85132119524&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.32942/OSF.IO/WAHCY
DO - 10.32942/OSF.IO/WAHCY
M3 - Article
C2 - 35677293
SN - 0006-3568
VL - 72
SP - 538
EP - 548
JO - BioScience
JF - BioScience
IS - 6
ER -