Individuele niches in tijd en ruimte: een 'niche' voor niche plasticiteit? Universiteit Antwerpen
A central tenet in evolutionary biology is that populations adapt to their environment with every generation through the process of natural selection. In long-lived species such as gulls (Larus spp.), environmental changes may however also occur at timescales much shorter than generations, which is the timeframe over which evolution acts. Individuals should therefore benefit from being able to (partly) adjust their physiology or behaviour to ...