Digest: Better constructing the future than choosing a new habitat

Abstract

What strategy should an individual follow in a heterogeneous environment when its phenotype is not optimized for its current environment: make changes to the environment (habitat construction), move to a different place (habitat choice), or both? Scheiner et al. used an individual‐based model to investigate the interaction of habitat choice and habitat construction. In most situations, habitat construction was superior to either habitat selection or a mixed strategy.