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Indirect evolutionary rescue: prey adapts, predator avoids extinction.
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- Defense-competition trade-offs shape prey eco-evolutionary dynamics across environmental gradients.Ecology · 2026Article
- Trade-offs between defense and competitive traits in a planktonic predator-prey system.Ecology · 2024Article
- Rescue or murder? The effect of prey adaptation to the predator subjected to fisheries.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Geographic variation in evolutionary rescue under climate change in a crop pest-predator system.Evolutionary applications · 2024Article
- Trait adaptation enhances species coexistence and reduces bistability in an intraguild predation module.Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- Change in prey genotype frequency rescues predator from extinction.Royal Society open science · 2022Article
- Inconsistent evolution and growth-survival tradeoffs inProceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Functional diversity buffers the effects of a pulse perturbation on the dynamics of tritrophic food webs.Ecology and evolution · 2021Article
- Eco-evolutionary dynamics driven by fishing: From single species models to dynamic evolution within complex food webs.Evolutionary applications · 2020Article
- Prey adaptation along a competition-defense tradeoff cryptically shifts trophic cascades from density- to trait-mediated.Oecologia · 2020Article
- How frequency-dependent selection affects population fitness, maladaptation and evolutionary rescue.Evolutionary applications · 2019Review
- Trophic structure modulates community rescue following acidification.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Article
- Ecological pleiotropy and indirect effects alter the potential for evolutionary rescue.Evolutionary applications · 2019Article
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Abstract
Recent studies have increasingly recognized evolutionary rescue (adaptive evolution that prevents extinction following environmental change) as an important process in evolutionary biology and conservation science. Researchers have concentrated on single species living in isolation, but populations in nature exist within communities of interacting species, so evolutionary rescue should also be investigated in a multispecies context. We argue that the persistence or extinction of a focal species can be determined solely by evolutionary change in an interacting species. We demonstrate that prey adaptive evolution can prevent predator extinction in two-species predator-prey models, and we derive the conditions under which this indirect evolutionary interaction is essential to prevent extinction following environmental change. A nonevolving predator can be rescued from extinction by adaptive evolution of its prey due to a trade-off for the prey between defense against predation and population growth rate. As prey typically have larger populations and shorter generations than their predators, prey evolution can be rapid and have profound effects on predator population dynamics. We suggest that this process, which we term 'indirect evolutionary rescue', has the potential to be critically important to the ecological and evolutionary responses of populations and communities to dramatic environmental change.
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