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dc.contributor.authorVan Allen, B
dc.contributor.authorJones, N
dc.contributor.authorGilbert, B
dc.contributor.authorCarscadden, K
dc.contributor.authorGermain, R
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-09T23:27:50Z
dc.date.available2022-05-09T23:27:50Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifier.issn2045-7758
dc.identifier.doi10.1002/ece3.7586
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/414405
dc.description.abstractMaternal environmental effects create lagged population responses to past environments. Although they are ubiquitous and vary in expression across taxa, it remains unclear if and how their presence alters competitive interactions in ecological communities. Here, we use a discrete-time competition model to simulate how maternal effects alter competitive dynamics in fluctuating and constant environments. Further, we explore how omitting maternal effects alter estimates of known model parameters from observational time series data. Our simulations demonstrate that (i) maternal effects change competitive outcomes, regardless of whether competitors otherwise interact neutrally or exhibit non-neutral competitive differences, (ii) the consequences of maternal effects for competitive outcomes are mediated by the temporal structure of environmental variation, (iii) even in constant conditions, competitive outcomes are influenced by species' maternal effects strategies, and (iv) in observational time series data, omitting maternal effects reduces variation explained by models and biases parameter estimates, including competition coefficients. Our findings demonstrate that the ecological consequences of maternal effects hinge on the competitive environment. Evolutionary biologists have long recognized that maternal effects can be an important but often overlooked strategy buffering populations from environmental change. We suggest that maternal effects are similarly critical to ecology and call for research into maternal effects as drivers of dynamics in populations and communities.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageen
dc.publisherWiley
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom7544
dc.relation.ispartofpageto7556
dc.relation.ispartofissue12
dc.relation.ispartofjournalEcology and Evolution
dc.relation.ispartofvolume11
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEcology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEvolutionary biology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3103
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3104
dc.titleMaternal effects and the outcome of interspecific competition
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dcterms.bibliographicCitationVan Allen, B; Jones, N; Gilbert, B; Carscadden, K; Germain, R, Maternal effects and the outcome of interspecific competition, Ecology and Evolution, 2021, 11 (12), pp. 7544-7556
dc.date.updated2022-05-09T22:39:12Z
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gro.rights.copyright© 2021 The Authors. Ecology and Evolution published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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gro.griffith.authorJones, Natalie T.


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