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McNamara, John M.
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Environmental variability can select for optimism or pessimism
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LIBRIS-ID:oai:gup.ub.gu.se/273394
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https://gup.ub.gu.se/publication/273394URI
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https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2010.01556.xDOI
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We propose operational definitions of reproductive optimism and pessimism; optimism involves behaving in a way that gives too much weight (in terms of producing surviving offspring) to positive events, pessimism gives too much weight to negative events. Natural selection maximizes the long-term growth of a lineage rather than short-term measures such as numbers of offspring. Consequently, optimism or pessimism can be favoured by natural selection, even though such biases appear irrational from a short-term perspective. We investigate the evolution of optimism in a metapopulation. The circumstances of a patch change over time, independently of other patches. With sufficient dispersal between patches, stochasticity affects members of a lineage largely independently and optimism is favoured. With little dispersal, the temporal fluctuations of a patch affect many members similarly; pessimism is then favoured. Our results establish that the spatial and temporal structure of the environment is crucial in determining the direction of evolved biases. © 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd/CNRS.
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Trimmer, Pete C.
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Eriksson, Anders,1975Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för marin ekologi,Department of Marine Ecology(Swepub:gu)xeands
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Marshall, James A R
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Houston, Alasdair I.
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Göteborgs universitetInstitutionen för marin ekologi
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Ingår i:Ecology Letters: Wiley14:1, s. 58-621461-023X1461-0248
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