Evolutionary rescue and adaptation to abrupt environmental change depends upon the history of stress

A Gonzalez, G Bell - … Transactions of the Royal Society B …, 2013 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Whether evolution will be rapid enough to rescue declining populations will depend upon
population size, the supply of genetic variation, the degree of maladaptation and the …

Evolutionary rescue can prevent extinction following environmental change

G Bell, A Gonzalez - Ecology letters, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Adaptation of experimental yeast populations to stressful conditions in relation to population size

P Samani, G Bell - Journal of evolutionary biology, 2010 - academic.oup.com
The purpose of this experiment was to find out how a population becomes adapted to
extremely stressful conditions as its environment deteriorates. We created a deteriorating …

Evolutionary rescue and the limits of adaptation

G Bell - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society …, 2013 - royalsocietypublishing.org
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 …

When does evolution by natural selection prevent extinction?

R Gomulkiewicz, RD Holt - Evolution, 1995 - JSTOR
Understanding population responses to novel environments is a central concern of both
evolutionary biology and ecology (Maynard Smith 1989; Bradshaw 1991; Hoffman and …

Phenotypic plasticity in evolutionary rescue experiments

LM Chevin, R Gallet… - … of the Royal …, 2013 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Population persistence in a new and stressful environment can be influenced by the plastic
phenotypic responses of individuals to this environment, and by the genetic evolution of …

Adaptation and evolutionary rescue in metapopulations experiencing environmental deterioration

G Bell, A Gonzalez - Science, 2011 - science.org
It is not known whether evolution will usually be rapid enough to allow a species to adapt
and persist in a deteriorating environment. We tracked the eco-evolutionary dynamics of …

Evolutionary rescue can be impeded by temporary environmental amelioration

YQ Hao, MA Brockhurst, OL Petchey… - Ecology letters, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Rapid evolutionary adaptation has the potential to rescue from extinction populations
experiencing environmental changes. Little is known, however, about the impact of short …

Evolution and extinction in a changing environment: a quantitative‐genetic analysis

R Bürger, M Lynch - Evolution, 1995 - Wiley Online Library
Because of the ubiquity of genetic variation for quantitative traits, virtually all populations
have some capacity to respond evolutionarily to selective challenges. However, natural …

The probability of evolutionary rescue: towards a quantitative comparison between theory and evolution experiments

G Martin, R Aguilée, J Ramsayer… - … Transactions of the …, 2013 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Evolutionary rescue occurs when a population genetically adapts to a new stressful
environment that would otherwise cause its extinction. Forecasting the probability of …