Adaptation in Metapopulation: Book Review

Book Review

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Book Review

book review

Book Review

Metapopulation structure favors plasticity over local adaptation.

We describe a model for the evolutionary consequences of plasticity in an environmentally heterogeneous metapopulation in which specialists for each of two alternative environments and one plastic type are initially present. The model is similar to that proposed by Moran (1992) but extends her work to two sites. We show that with migration between sites the plastic type is favored over local sp...