ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2020
Ecological limits to evolutionary rescue.
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- Strong amplification of quantitative genetic variation under a balance between mutation and fluctuating stabilizing selection.Genetics · 2026Article
- Effects of Extreme Climatic Events on Evolutionary Processes.Global change biology · 2025Review
- The adaptive state determines the impact of mutations on evolving populations.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Impacts of limits to adaptation on population and community persistence in a changing environment.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Review
- Adaptive colonization across a parasitism-mutualism gradient.Evolution letters · 2024Article
- Demographic feedbacks during evolutionary rescue can slow or speed adaptive evolution.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Stackelberg evolutionary game theory: how to manage evolving systems.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Review
- Phase transitions in biology: from bird flocks to population dynamics.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Adaptive and nonadaptive plasticity in changing environments: Implications for sexual species with different life history strategies.Ecology and evolution · 2021Article
- Integrative research perspectives on marine conservation.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2020Article
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Abstract
Environments change, for both natural and anthropogenic reasons, which can threaten species persistence. Evolutionary adaptation is a potentially powerful mechanism to allow species to persist in these changing environments. To determine the conditions under which adaptation will prevent extinction (evolutionary rescue), classic quantitative genetics models have assumed a constantly changing environment. They predict that species traits will track a moving environmental optimum with a lag that approaches a constant. If fitness is negative at this lag, the species will go extinct. There have been many elaborations of these models incorporating increased genetic realism. Here, we review and explore the consequences of four ecological complications: non-quadratic fitness functions, interacting density- and trait-dependence, species interactions and fundamental limits to adaptation. We show that non-quadratic fitness functions can result in evolutionary tipping points and existential crises, as can the interaction between density- and trait-dependent mortality. We then review the literature on how interspecific interactions affect adaptation and persistence. Finally, we suggest an alternative theoretical framework that considers bounded environmental change and fundamental limits to adaptation. A research programme that combines theory and experiments and integrates across organizational scales will be needed to predict whether adaptation will prevent species extinction in changing environments. This article is part of the theme issue 'Integrative research perspectives on marine conservation'.
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