Evolutionary rescue can prevent extinction following environmental change

Ecology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 942-948

  Bell, Graham ^a   Gonzalez, Andrew ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Environmental change; Experimental evolution; Microcosm; Population; Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BIODIVERSITY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; EXTINCTION; GLOBAL CHANGE; MICROCOSM; POPULATION SIZE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; YEAST;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 68849096061     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01350.x     Document Type: Article

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