Populations that experience severe stress may avoid extinction through adaptation by
natural selection. This process is called evolutionary rescue and has been studied under …

Environmental change, if severe, can drive a population extinct unless the population
succeeds in adapting to the new conditions. How likely is a population to win the race …

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 …

Laboratory model systems and mathematical models have shed considerable light on the
fundamental properties and processes of evolutionary rescue. But it remains to determine …

Evolutionary rescue occurs when adaptive evolutionary change restores positive growth to
declining populations and prevents extinction. Here we outline the diagnostic features of …

Populations subject to severe stress may be rescued by natural selection, but its operation is
restricted by ecological and genetic constraints. The cost of natural selection expresses the …

Adaptive dynamics theory has been devised to account for feedbacks between ecological
and evolutionary processes. Doing so opens new dimensions to and raises new challenges …

Evolutionary responses that rescue populations from extinction when drastic environmental
changes occur can be friend or foe. The field of conservation biology is concerned with the …

Understanding population responses to novel environments is a central concern of both
evolutionary biology and ecology (Maynard Smith 1989; Bradshaw 1991; Hoffman and …

Evolutionary rescue occurs when a population genetically adapts to a new stressful
environment that would otherwise cause its extinction. Forecasting the probability of …