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Alexis Rutschmann
Researcher at University of Auckland
Publications - 21
Citations - 616
Alexis Rutschmann is an academic researcher from University of Auckland. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Threatened species. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 18 publications receiving 402 citations. Previous affiliations of Alexis Rutschmann include Institut national de la recherche agronomique & University of Toulouse.
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Phenological plasticity will not help all species adapt to climate change
TL;DR: It is shown that phenological plasticity is not always adaptive and mostly affects fitness at the margins of the species' distribution and climatic niche, and strongly point towards species distribution models explicitly taking phenotypic plasticity into account when forecasting species distribution under climate change scenarios.
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Role of propagule pressure in colonization success: disentangling the relative importance of demographic, genetic and habitat effects
TL;DR: The data show that the positive effect of propagule pressure on founding success can be driven as much by underlying genetic processes as by demographics, and genetic effects can be immediate and have sizable effects on fitness.
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Shorter telomeres precede population extinction in wild lizards.
Andréaz Dupoué,Alexis Rutschmann,Alexis Rutschmann,Jean-François Le Galliard,Jean-François Le Galliard,Jean Clobert,Frédéric Angelier,Coline Marciau,Stéphanie Ruault,Donald B. Miles,Sandrine Meylan,Sandrine Meylan +11 more
TL;DR: The results identify TL as a promising biomarker and imply that population extinctions might be preceded by a loop of physiological aging, with shorter telomeres in populations facing high risk of extinction when compared to non-threatened ones.
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Little Adaptive Potential in a Threatened Passerine Bird
Pierre de Villemereuil,Alexis Rutschmann,Kate D. Lee,John G. Ewen,Patricia Brekke,Anna W. Santure +5 more
TL;DR: A lack of molecular genetic diversity at a genome-wide level in both populations and negligible additive genetic variance of fitness in the Tiritiri Matangi population support a lack of adaptive potential in this threatened species.
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Genetic variance in fitness indicates rapid contemporary adaptive evolution in wild animals
Timothée Bonnet,Michael B. Morrissey,Pierre de Villemereuil,Susan C. Alberts,Peter Arcese,Liam D. Bailey,Stan Boutin,Patricia Brekke,Lauren J. N. Brent,Glauco Camenisch,Anne Charmantier,Tim H. Clutton-Brock,Andrew Cockburn,David W. Coltman,Alexandre Courtiol,Eve Davidian,Simon R. Evans,John G. Ewen,Marco Festa-Bianchet,Christophe de Franceschi,Lars Gustafsson,Oliver P. Höner,Thomas M. Houslay,Lukas F. Keller,Marta B. Manser,Andrew G. McAdam,Emily McLean,Pirmin Nietlisbach,Helen L. Osmond,Josephine M. Pemberton,Erik Postma,Jane M. Reid,Alexis Rutschmann,Anna W. Santure,Ben C. Sheldon,Jon Slate,Céline Teplitsky,Marcel E. Visser,Bettina Wachter,Loeske E. B. Kruuk +39 more
TL;DR: Walsh et al. as mentioned in this paper applied quantitative genetic methods to long-term datasets from 19 wild bird and mammal populations and found that additive genetic variance in relative fitness is often substantial and, on average, twice that of previous estimates.