The concept of ecotypes is complex, partly because of its interdisciplinary nature, but the
idea is intrinsically valuable for evolutionary biology and applied conservation. The complex …

Organisms adapt to different environments by selection of the most suitable phenotypes from
the standing genetic variation or by phenotypic plasticity, the ability of single genotypes to …

While ecological monitoring and biodiversity assessment programs are widely implemented
and relatively well developed to survey and monitor the structure and dynamics of …

Ecology Letters (2011) 14: 841–851 Abstract Ecological specialisation concerns all species
and underlies many major ecological and evolutionary patterns. Yet its status as a unifying …

The dualism of genetic predisposition and environmental influences, their interactions, and
respective roles in shaping the phenotype have been a hot topic in biological sciences for …

Ecological processes are central to the formation of new species when barriers to gene flow
(reproductive isolation) evolve between populations as a result of ecologically‐based …

Many evolutionary processes are influenced by environmental variation over space and
time, including genetic divergence among populations, speciation and evolutionary change …

Ecological fitting is the process whereby organisms colonize and persist in novel
environments, use novel resources or form novel associations with other species as a result …

Epigenetic processes manage gene expression and products in a real‐time manner,
allowing a single genome to display different phenotypes. In this paper, we discussed the …

Natural selection often produces parallel phenotypic changes in response to a similar
adaptive challenge. However, the extent to which parallel gene expression differences and …