Evolutionary rescue can maintain an oscillating community undergoing environmental change
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Evolutionary rescue can maintain an oscillating community undergoing environmental change.
The persistence of ecological communities is challenged by widespread and rapid environmental change. In many cases, persistence may not be assured via physiological acclimation or migration and so species must adapt rapidly in situ. This process of evolutionary rescue (ER) occurs when genetic adaptation allows a population to recover from decline initiated by environmental change that would ot...
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عنوان ژورنال: Interface Focus
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2042-8898,2042-8901
DOI: 10.1098/rsfs.2013.0036