Nature Communications (Jan 2017)

Rapid adaptive phenotypic change following colonization of a newly restored habitat

  • Camilla Lo Cascio Sætre,
  • Charles Coleiro,
  • Martin Austad,
  • Mark Gauci,
  • Glenn-Peter Sætre,
  • Kjetil Lysne Voje,
  • Fabrice Eroukhmanoff

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14159
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Rapid local adaptation could potentially facilitate the recolonization of restored habitats. Here, the authors show that reed warblers have undergone substantial adaptive change in body mass in only 19 years after colonizing a restored wetland in Malta.