The rate of evolution of population mean fitness informs how selection acting in
contemporary populations can counteract environmental change and genetic degradation …

The unprecedented rate of extinction calls for efficient use of genetics to help conserve
biodiversity. Several recent genomic and simulation-based studies have argued that the …

Understanding processes that limit species' ranges has been a core issue in ecology and
evolutionary biology for many decades, and has become increasingly important given the …

The rate of adaptive evolution, the contribution of selection to genetic changes that increase
mean fitness, is determined by the additive genetic variance in individual relative fitness. To …

Telomeres are protective caps at the end of eukaryotic chromosomes that shorten with age
and in response to stressful or resource‐demanding conditions. Their length predicts …

Threatened species face numerous threats, including future challenges triggered by global
change. A possible way to cope with these challenges is through adaptive evolution, which …

Inbreeding depression, the deterioration in mean trait value in progeny of related parents, is
a fundamental quantity in genetics, evolutionary biology, animal and plant breeding, and …

Sexual selection is considered the major driver for the evolution of sex differences. However,
the eco-evolutionary dynamics of sexual selection and their role for a population's adaptive …

Inbreeding can depress individuals' fitness traits and reduce population viability. However,
studies that directly translate inbreeding depression on fitness traits into consequences for …

Ongoing adaptive evolution, and resulting “evolutionary rescue” of declining populations,
requires additive genetic variation in fitness. Such variation can be increased by gene flow …