ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2017
Adaptation to fragmentation: evolutionary dynamics driven by human influences.
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- Experimental evidence that network topology can accelerate the spread of beneficial mutations.Evolution letters · 2023Article
- Climate-driven variation in dispersal ability predicts responses to forest fragmentation in birds.Nature ecology & evolution · 2023Article
- Critical transitions and evolutionary hysteresis in movement: Habitat fragmentation can cause abrupt shifts in dispersal that are difficult to revert.Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- Integrating biogeography and behavioral ecology to rapidly address biodiversity loss.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Dispersal syndrome and landscape fragmentation in the salt-marsh specialist spiderCurrent zoology · 2023Article
- Foraging behaviour and patch size distribution jointly determine population dynamics in fragmented landscapes.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2022Article
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4 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
Fragmentation-the process by which habitats are transformed into smaller patches isolated from each other-has been identified as a major threat for biodiversity. Fragmentation has well-established demographic and population genetic consequences, eroding genetic diversity and hindering gene flow among patches. However, fragmentation should also select on life history, both predictably through increased isolation, demographic stochasticity and edge effects, and more idiosyncratically via altered biotic interactions. While species have adapted to natural fragmentation, adaptation to anthropogenic fragmentation has received little attention. In this review, we address how and whether organisms might adapt to anthropogenic fragmentation. Drawing on selected case studies and evolutionary ecology models, we show that anthropogenic fragmentation can generate selection on traits at both the patch and landscape scale, and affect the adaptive potential of populations. We suggest that dispersal traits are likely to experience especially strong selection, as dispersal both enables migration among patches and increases the risk of landing in the inhospitable matrix surrounding them. We highlight that suites of associated traits are likely to evolve together. Importantly, we show that adaptation will not necessarily rescue populations from the negative effects of fragmentation, and may even exacerbate them, endangering the entire metapopulation.This article is part of the themed issue 'Human influences on evolution, and the ecological and societal consequences'.
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