Ecological and Evolutionary Traps.¶
Schlaepfer, M. A., Runge, M. C., & Sherman, P. W. (2002). Ecological and Evolutionary Traps. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 17(10), 474-480.
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Primes¶
- Calibrated Rule versus Moving World
- In ecology and evolution, adaptation lag is the same dynamic in a biological substrate: a trait or behavior tuned by selection to a past environment becomes maladaptive when the environment shifts faster than the population can evolve, producing evolutionary traps (a beetle that mates with a beer bottle because the bottle out-supernormals the female it was calibrated to recognize) and extinction risk under rapid climate change — the "rule" is the genome's encoded mapping, and the world has moved out from under it.
This sourceDefines evolutionary/ecological traps where a trait or cue-response calibrated to a past environment becomes maladaptive when the environment shifts faster than the population can track.
- In ecology and evolution, adaptation lag is the same dynamic in a biological substrate: a trait or behavior tuned by selection to a past environment becomes maladaptive when the environment shifts faster than the population can evolve, producing evolutionary traps (a beetle that mates with a beer bottle because the bottle out-supernormals the female it was calibrated to recognize) and extinction risk under rapid climate change — the "rule" is the genome's encoded mapping, and the world has moved out from under it.
- Cue Outcome Decoupling
- In behavioral ecology, hatchling sea turtles orient toward the brightest horizon — historically moonlit ocean, now beachfront hotels — and mayflies oviposit on glossy asphalt mistaken for water.
This sourceCanonical treatment of ecological traps: organisms following once-reliable cues into maladaptive outcomes after human-altered environments sever the cue-outcome coupling.
- In behavioral ecology, hatchling sea turtles orient toward the brightest horizon — historically moonlit ocean, now beachfront hotels — and mayflies oviposit on glossy asphalt mistaken for water.
- Evolutionary Trap
- Behavioral ecology — sea turtle hatchlings orienting toward the brightest horizon (once the moonlit ocean, now beachfront lights), mayflies laying eggs on glossy asphalt mistaken for water, and sky-glow mortality in migratory birds.
This sourceDefines the evolutionary/ecological trap: a once-reliable cue decoupled from fitness by environmental change, drawing organisms maladaptively (e.g. phototaxis in hatchlings, oviposition on artificial surfaces).
- Behavioral ecology — sea turtle hatchlings orienting toward the brightest horizon (once the moonlit ocean, now beachfront lights), mayflies laying eggs on glossy asphalt mistaken for water, and sky-glow mortality in migratory birds.
Domain-specific¶
- Ecological Trap
- Formalised by Schlaepfer, Runge, and Sherman (2002) in the behavioral-ecology literature
This sourceThe paper that formalised the ecological/evolutionary trap concept in behavioral ecology.
- Formalised by Schlaepfer, Runge, and Sherman (2002) in the behavioral-ecology literature
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