Imperial College London
Emeritus Professor Russell Lande

Emeritus ProfessorRussellLande

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Life Sciences (Silwood Park)

Emeritus Professor of Population Biology
 
 
 
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Lande R, 2019, Developmental integration and evolution of labile plasticity in a complex quantitative character in a multiperiodic environment., Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, Vol: 116, Pages: 11361-11369

Labile plasticity in a complex quantitative character is modeled, with multiple components contributing to net plasticity in the character. Each component has a specific development rate, norm of reaction, and cost of plasticity. For example, thermal adaptation in mammals includes seasonal fat deposition and fur growth, short-term shivering and sweating or panting, and movement between warm and cold sites. Norms of reaction do not reveal patterns of developmental integration, which must be investigated by studies of developmental dynamics in a changing environment. In a periodic environment, a labile character with a single component of plasticity is constrained by filtering environmental frequencies above the development rate and by the cost of plasticity. With multiple components of plasticity, some patterns of integration can alleviate these constraints to greatly improve fidelity of the mean phenotype tracking multiperiodic cycles in the optimum phenotype. This occurs by environmental signal amplification or inhibition through developmental integration among components and by an augmented development rate of net plasticity in the character that reduces environmental frequency filtering. When development of a component with high cost of plasticity is regulated partly by the norm of reaction of another component, evolution can diminish the reaction norm slope of the costly component without curtailing its development, thereby reducing the loss of fitness from its cost of plasticity. Apparent maladaptation in a component of plasticity may be an integral part of an adaptive pattern of developmental integration by mutual inhibition between components and compensatory evolution of a negative component reaction norm slope.

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Lande R, Engen S, Sæther B-E, 2017, Evolution of stochastic demography with life history tradeoffs in density-dependent age-structured populations., Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, Vol: 114, Pages: 11582-11590

We analyze the stochastic demography and evolution of a density-dependent age- (or stage-) structured population in a fluctuating environment. A positive linear combination of age classes (e.g., weighted by body mass) is assumed to act as the single variable of population size, [Formula: see text], exerting density dependence on age-specific vital rates through an increasing function of population size. The environment fluctuates in a stationary distribution with no autocorrelation. We show by analysis and simulation of age structure, under assumptions often met by vertebrate populations, that the stochastic dynamics of population size can be accurately approximated by a univariate model governed by three key demographic parameters: the intrinsic rate of increase and carrying capacity in the average environment, [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text], and the environmental variance in population growth rate, [Formula: see text] Allowing these parameters to be genetically variable and to evolve, but assuming that a fourth parameter, [Formula: see text], measuring the nonlinearity of density dependence, remains constant, the expected evolution maximizes [Formula: see text] This shows that the magnitude of environmental stochasticity governs the classical trade-off between selection for higher [Formula: see text] versus higher [Formula: see text] However, selection also acts to decrease [Formula: see text], so the simple life-history trade-off between [Formula: see text]- and [Formula: see text]-selection may be obscured by additional trade-offs between them and [Formula: see text] Under the classical logistic model of population growth with linear density dependence ([Formula: see text]), life-history evolution in a fluctuating environment tends to maximize the average population size.

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Lande R, Porcher E, 2017, Inbreeding depression maintained by recessive lethal mutations interacting with stabilizing selection on quantitative characters in a partially self-fertilizing population, EVOLUTION, Vol: 71, Pages: 1191-1204, ISSN: 0014-3820

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Porcher E, Lande R, 2016, Inbreeding depression under mixed outcrossing, self-fertilization and sib-mating., BMC Evolutionary Biology, Vol: 16, ISSN: 1471-2148

BACKGROUND: Biparental inbreeding, mating between two relatives, occurs at a low frequency in many natural plant populations, which also often have substantial rates of self-fertilization. Although biparental inbreeding is likely to influence the dynamics of inbreeding depression and the evolution of selfing rates, it has received limited theoretical attention in comparison to selfing. The only previous model suggested that biparental inbreeding can favour the maintenance of stable intermediate selfing rates, but made unrealistic assumptions about the genetic basis of inbreeding depression. Here we extend a genetic model of inbreeding depression, describing nearly recessive lethal mutations at a very large number of loci, to incorporate sib-mating. We also include a constant component of inbreeding depression modelling the effects of mildly deleterious, nearly additive alleles. We analyze how observed rates of sib-mating influence the mean number of heterozygous lethals alleles and inbreeding depression in a population reproducing by a mixture of self-fertilization, sib-mating and outcrossing. We finally use the ensuing relationship between equilibrium inbreeding depression and population selfing rate to infer the evolutionarily stable selfing rates expected under such a mixed mating system. RESULTS: We show that for a given rate of inbreeding, sib-mating is more efficient at purging inbreeding depression than selfing, because homozygosity of lethals increases more gradually through sib-mating than through selfing. Because sib-mating promotes the purging of inbreeding depression and the evolution of selfing, our genetic model of inbreeding depression also predicts that sib-mating is unlikely to maintain stable intermediate selfing rates. CONCLUSIONS: Our results imply that even low rates of sib-mating affect plant mating system evolution, by facilitating the evolution of selfing via more efficient purging of inbreeding depression. Alternative mechanisms, such as pol

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Chevin L-M, Lande R, 2015, Evolution of environmental cues for phenotypic plasticity, EVOLUTION, Vol: 69, Pages: 2767-2775, ISSN: 0014-3820

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Lande R, Porcher E, 2015, Maintenance of Quantitative Genetic Variance Under Partial Self-Fertilization, with Implications for Evolution of Selfing, GENETICS, Vol: 200, Pages: 891-906, ISSN: 0016-6731

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Lande R, 2015, Evolution of phenotypic plasticity in colonizing species, MOLECULAR ECOLOGY, Vol: 24, Pages: 2038-2045, ISSN: 0962-1083

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Penz C, DeVries P, Tufto J, Lande Ret al., 2015, Butterfly dispersal across Amazonia and its implication for biogeography, ECOGRAPHY, Vol: 38, Pages: 410-418, ISSN: 0906-7590

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Engen S, Lande R, Saether B-E, 2014, Evolutionary Consequences of Nonselective Harvesting in Density-Dependent Populations, AMERICAN NATURALIST, Vol: 184, Pages: 714-726, ISSN: 0003-0147

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Devaux C, Lande R, Porcher E, 2014, Pollination ecology and inbreeding depression control individual flowering phenologies and mixed mating, EVOLUTION, Vol: 68, Pages: 3051-3065, ISSN: 0014-3820

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Conner JK, Lande R, 2014, Raissa L. Berg's contributions to the study of phenotypic integration, with a professional biographical sketch, PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, Vol: 369, ISSN: 0962-8436

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Grotan V, Lande R, Chacon IA, DeVries PJet al., 2014, Seasonal cycles of diversity and similarity in a Central American rainforest butterfly community, ECOGRAPHY, Vol: 37, Pages: 509-516, ISSN: 0906-7590

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Lande R, 2014, Evolution of phenotypic plasticity and environmental tolerance of a labile quantitative character in a fluctuating environment, JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY, Vol: 27, Pages: 866-875, ISSN: 1010-061X

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Porcher E, Lande R, 2013, EVALUATING A SIMPLE APPROXIMATION TO MODELING THE JOINT EVOLUTION OF SELF-FERTILIZATION AND INBREEDING DEPRESSION, EVOLUTION, Vol: 67, Pages: 3628-3635, ISSN: 0014-3820

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Chevin L-M, Lande R, 2013, Evolution of Discrete Phenotypes from Continuous Norms of Reaction, AMERICAN NATURALIST, Vol: 182, Pages: 13-27, ISSN: 0003-0147

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Engen S, Lande R, Saether B-E, 2013, A Quantitative Genetic Model of <i>r</i>- and <i>K</i>-Selection in a Fluctuating Population, AMERICAN NATURALIST, Vol: 181, Pages: 725-736, ISSN: 0003-0147

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Servedio MR, Price TD, Lande R, 2013, Evolution of displays within the pair bond, PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, Vol: 280, ISSN: 0962-8452

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Chevin L-M, Lande R, 2013, Evolution of Discrete Phenotypes from Continuous Norms of Reaction, AMERICAN NATURALIST, Vol: 182, Pages: 13-27, ISSN: 0003-0147

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Tufto J, Lande R, Ringsby T-H, Engen S, Saether B-E, Walla TR, DeVries PJet al., 2012, Estimating Brownian motion dispersal rate, longevity and population density from spatially explicit mark-recapture data on tropical butterflies, JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY, Vol: 81, Pages: 756-769, ISSN: 0021-8790

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Goldberg EE, Lande R, Price TD, 2012, Population Regulation and Character Displacement in a Seasonal Environment, AMERICAN NATURALIST, Vol: 179, Pages: 693-705, ISSN: 0003-0147

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Grotan V, Lande R, Engen S, Saether B-E, DeVries PJet al., 2012, Seasonal cycles of species diversity and similarity in a tropical butterfly community, JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY, Vol: 81, Pages: 714-723, ISSN: 0021-8790

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Engen S, Lande R, Saether B-E, 2011, EVOLUTION OF A PLASTIC QUANTITATIVE TRAIT IN AN AGE-STRUCTURED POPULATION IN A FLUCTUATING ENVIRONMENT, EVOLUTION, Vol: 65, Pages: 2893-2906, ISSN: 0014-3820

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Chevin L-M, Lande R, 2011, Adaptation to marginal habitats by evolution of increased phenotypic plasticity, JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY, Vol: 24, Pages: 1462-1476, ISSN: 1010-061X

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Goldberg EE, Kohn JR, Lande R, Robertson KA, Smith SA, Igic Bet al., 2010, Species Selection Maintains Self-Incompatibility, SCIENCE, Vol: 330, Pages: 493-495, ISSN: 0036-8075

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Galis F, Arntzen JW, Lande R, 2010, DOLLO'S LAW AND THE IRREVERSIBILITY OF DIGIT LOSS IN <i>BACHIA</i>, EVOLUTION, Vol: 64, Pages: 2466-2476, ISSN: 0014-3820

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Engen S, Lande R, Saether B-E, Gienapp Pet al., 2010, Estimating the ratio of effective to actual size of an age-structured population from individual demographic data, JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY, Vol: 23, Pages: 1148-1158, ISSN: 1010-061X

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Devaux C, Lande R, 2010, SELECTION ON VARIANCE IN FLOWERING TIME WITHIN AND AMONG INDIVIDUALS, EVOLUTION, Vol: 64, Pages: 1311-1320, ISSN: 0014-3820

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Chevin L-M, Lande R, Mace GM, 2010, Adaptation, Plasticity, and Extinction in a Changing Environment: Towards a Predictive Theory, PLOS BIOLOGY, Vol: 8, ISSN: 1544-9173

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Chevin L-M, Lande R, 2010, WHEN DO ADAPTIVE PLASTICITY AND GENETIC EVOLUTION PREVENT EXTINCTION OF A DENSITY-REGULATED POPULATION?, EVOLUTION, Vol: 64, Pages: 1143-1150, ISSN: 0014-3820

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Engen S, Lande R, Saether B-E, Dobson FSet al., 2009, Reproductive Value and the Stochastic Demography of Age-Structured Populations, AMERICAN NATURALIST, Vol: 174, Pages: 795-804, ISSN: 0003-0147

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