作者
Tim Coulson, Daniel R MacNulty, Daniel R Stahler, vonHoldt Bridgett, Robert K Wayne, Douglas W Smith
发表日期
2011/12/2
期刊
Science
卷号
334
期号
6060
页码范围
1275-1278
出版商
American Association for the Advancement of
简介
Environmental change has been observed to generate simultaneous responses in population dynamics, life history, gene frequencies, and morphology in a number of species. But how common are such eco-evolutionary responses to environmental change likely to be? Are they inevitable, or do they require a specific type of change? Can we accurately predict eco-evolutionary responses? We address these questions using theory and data from the study of Yellowstone wolves. We show that environmental change is expected to generate eco-evolutionary change, that changes in the average environment will affect wolves to a greater extent than changes in how variable it is, and that accurate prediction of the consequences of environmental change will probably prove elusive.
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