ReviewEvolutionary applications2018
Using the resurrection approach to understand contemporary evolution in changing environments.
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- Two decades of resurrection studies: What have we learned about contemporary evolution of plant species?American journal of botany · 2026Pooled it
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- Evolution of flowering phenology over 44 years of climate change.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- The incredible vulnerability that reproduction poses for plant species in a warming world.The New phytologist · 2026Review
- Garden, greenhouse, or climate chamber? Experimental conditions influence whether genetic differences are phenotypically expressed.Plant biology (Stuttgart, Germany) · 2026Article
- Catch me if you can:bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Resurrection ecology: An approach for understanding eco-evolutionary plant-microbe interactions under global change.American journal of botany · 2026Article
- Allele frequency and gene expression differences under key winter stresses in temporal populations of two timothy cultivars.TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik · 2026Article
- Climate and seed mass drive intraspecific variation in seed longevity in storage.American journal of botany · 2026Article
- Investigating a Potential Bias in Resurrection Experiments to Measure Adaptive Evolution of Flowering Time.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Rangewide responses of Mimulus cardinalis to an extreme heat event.American journal of botany · 2026Article
- Adaptive evolution can mitigate the negative effects of temperature stress on plant-pollinator interactions.The New phytologist · 2026Article
- Changes in pollen production, pollen heteromorphism and ovule production with increased selfing in Viola arvensis.Annals of botany · 2025Article
- Temperature variability and other climatic attributes linked to genomic features in the lichen-forming fungal genus Umbilicaria.BMC biology · 2025Article
- Climate change and plant genomic plasticity.TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik · 2025Review
- Looking back to look ahead: the temporal dimension of conservation seed bank collections.The New phytologist · 2025Review
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- The potential for evolutionary rescue in an Arctic seashore plant threatened by climate change.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- The value of long-term ecological research for evolutionary insights.Nature ecology & evolution · 2024Review
- Leaf morphological traits show greater responses to changes in climate than leaf physiological traits and gas exchange variables.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
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Abstract
The resurrection approach of reviving ancestors from stored propagules and comparing them with descendants under common conditions has emerged as a powerful method of detecting and characterizing contemporary evolution. As climatic and other environmental conditions continue to change at a rapid pace, this approach is becoming particularly useful for predicting and monitoring evolutionary responses. We evaluate this approach, explain the advantages and limitations, suggest best practices for implementation, review studies in which this approach has been used, and explore how it can be incorporated into conservation and management efforts. We find that although the approach has thus far been used in a limited number of cases, these studies have provided strong evidence for rapid contemporary adaptive evolution in a variety of systems, particularly in response to anthropogenic environmental change, although it is far from clear that evolution will be able to rescue many populations from extinction given current rates of global changes. We also highlight one effort, known as Project Baseline, to create a collection of stored seeds that can take advantage of the resurrection approach to examine evolutionary responses to environmental change over the coming decades. We conclude that the resurrection approach is a useful tool that could be more widely employed to examine basic questions about evolution in natural populations and to assist in the conservation and management of these populations as they face continued environmental change.
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