Understanding how spatially variable selection shapes adaptation is an area of long-
standing interest in evolutionary ecology. Recent meta-analyses have quantified the extent …

Adaptation to local conditions can increase species' geographic distributions and rates of
diversification, but which components of the environment commonly drive local adaptation …

Divergent selection across the landscape can favor the evolution of local adaptation in
populations experiencing contrasting conditions. Local adaptation is widely observed in a …

Theoretical and empirical studies of local adaptation in species interactions have increased
greatly over the past decade, yielding new insights into the conditions that favor local …

The study of local adaptation has been very important for the development of evolutionary
biology broadly. This tradition continues; through new developments in diverse areas, we …

Extensive empirical work has demonstrated local adaptation to discrete environments, yet
few studies have elucidated the genetic and environment mechanisms that generate it …

Local adaptation shapes species diversity, can be a stepping stone to ecological speciation,
and can facilitate species range expansion. Population genetic analyses, which complement …

Species' geographic range limits often result from maladaptation to the novel environments
beyond the range margin. However, we rarely know which aspects of the n-dimensional …

Environmental heterogeneity is considered a general explanation for phenotypic
diversification, particularly when heterogeneity causes populations to diverge via local …

Patterns of local adaptation are expected to emerge when selection is spatially
heterogeneous and sufficiently strong relative to the action of other evolutionary forces. The …