Rapid evolutionary adaptation has the potential to rescue from extinction populations
experiencing environmental changes. Little is known, however, about the impact of short …

Populations may survive environmental deterioration by evolutionary adaptation. However,
such evolutionary rescue events may be associated with ecological costs, such as reduction …

Substantial environmental change can force a population onto a path towards extinction, but
under some conditions, adaptation by natural selection can rescue the population and allow …

As climate change accelerates and habitats free from anthropogenic impacts diminish,
populations are forced to migrate or to adapt quickly. Evolutionary rescue (ER) is a …

No environment is constant over time, and environmental fluctuations impact the outcome of
evolutionary dynamics. Survival of a population not adapted to some environmental …

The ubiquity of global change and its impacts on biodiversity poses a clear and urgent
challenge for evolutionary biologists. In many cases, environmental change is so …

Rapid environmental changes are putting numerous species at risk of extinction. For
migration-limited species, persistence depends on either phenotypic plasticity or …

Dispersal is a key determinant of a population's evolutionary potential. It facilitates the
propagation of beneficial alleles throughout the distributional range of spatially outspread …

Populations subject to substantial environmental change that decreases absolute fitness
(expected number of offspring per individual) to less than one must adapt to persist. The …

There is concern that the rate of environmental change is now exceeding the capacity of
many populations to adapt. Mitigation of biodiversity loss requires science that integrates …