Does rapid evolution matter? Measuring the rate of contemporary evolution and its impacts on ecological dynamics

Ecology Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 603-614

  Ellner, Stephen P ^a   Geber, Monica A ^a   Hairston, Nelson G ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Contemporary evolution; Countergradient selection; Dynamic heterogeneity; Evolutionary rates; Phenotypic plasticity; Price Equation; Rapid evolution

Indexed keywords

BIRD; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; FISH; HETEROGENEITY; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; NATURAL SELECTION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; ZOOPLANKTON;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; BODY SIZE; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; DAPHNIA; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REVIEW; SONGBIRD; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY SIZE; DAPHNIA; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PASSERIFORMES; PHENOTYPE; POECILIA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SELECTION, GENETIC;

AVES;

EID: 79955948274     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01616.x     Document Type: Review

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