Eco-evolutionary Dynamics (eBook)

Andrew P. Hendry (Autor)

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2016
416 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8308-0 (ISBN)

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Andrew P. Hendry is professor in the Department of Biology and the Redpath Museum at McGill University. He is the coeditor of Microevolution: Rate, Pattern, Process and Evolution Illuminated: Salmon and Their Relatives.

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In recent years, scientists have realized that evolution can occur on timescales much shorter than the "e;long lapse of ages"e; emphasized by Darwin-in fact, evolutionary change is occurring all around us all the time. This book provides an authoritative and accessible introduction to eco-evolutionary dynamics, a cutting-edge new field that seeks to unify evolution and ecology into a common conceptual framework focusing on rapid and dynamic environmental and evolutionary change.Andrew Hendry covers key aspects of evolution, ecology, and their interactions. Topics range from natural selection, adaptive divergence, ecological speciation, and gene flow to population and community dynamics, ecosystem function, plasticity, and genomics. Hendry evaluates conceptual and methodological approaches, and draws on empirical data from natural populations-including those in human-disturbed environments-to tackle a number of classic and emerging research questions. He also discusses exciting new directions for future research at the intersection of ecology and evolution.An invaluable guide for students and researchers alike, Eco-evolutionary Dynamics reveals how evolution and ecology interact strongly on short timescales to shape the world we see around us.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.11.2016
• Zusatzinfo: 101 line illus. 2 tables.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Schlagworte: Adaptation • adaptive divergence • Adaptive Evolution • adaptive landscape • adaptive landscapes • adaptive plasticity • adaptive Radiation • adaptive speciation • Allele • allopatric speciation • antagonist coevolution • Antagonistic Coevolution • association mapping • Assortative Mating • biodiversity • biological stoichiometry • Biomass (ecology) • Calculation • Candidate Gene • candidate genes • character displacement • Community Change • community structure • Competition • Confidence interval • contemporary evolution • Darwin • Density dependence • Directional selection • disruptive selection • Diversity • Drosophila • Drought • eco-evolutionary dynamics • ecological niche • ecological speciation • Ecology • ecosystem • ecosystem function • ecotype • effect size • Emergence • Environmental change • environment-phenotype mismatch • epistasis • Evolution • evolutionary biology • evolutionary change • evolutionary dynamics • evolvability • experimental evolution • extinction • extreme individuals • Fecundity • Fitness (biology) • fitness landscape • fitness peaks • foraging • founder effect • Galapagos • Gene • gene expression • Gene Flow • generation time • Genetic architecture • genetic change • genetic correlation • Genetic divergence • genetic diversity • genetic drift • Genetic Linkage • Genetic marker • Genetics • genetic variance • genetic variation • genome scans • genomics • Genotype • Genotypes • Gill raker • Guppy • Herbivore • Heritability • Hybrid (biology) • inference • insect • interbreeding • interspecific diversity • intraspecific diversity • introgression • Life history • Local adaptation • Maladaptation • Maternal effect • mating • mesocosm • Meta-analysis • Microorganism • Modern evolutionary synthesis • Morphology • multiple environments • multiple populations • Mutation • mutation rate • Natural selection • nutrient • organism • Parallel evolution • parasitism • pathogen • Phenotype • phenotypes • phenotypic change • Phenotypic plasticity • Phenotypic trait • phenotypic variation • Physiology • Plasticity • Pleiotropy • Population decline • population dynamics • Populations • Population Size • predation • predatorаrey interactions • Price equation • QTL linkage mapping • Quantitative genetics • quantitative trait locus • rapid speciation • reaction norm • real organisms • Reinforcement • Reproduction • reproductive isolation • Reproductive success • selection • Selection coefficient • Sexual Selection • Speciation • speciation reversal • specific environments • sympatry • Taxon • taxonomic group • Theoretical studies • Timema • Transplant experiment • Trophic level • Uncertainty • Variation • Zooplankton
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8308-3 / 1400883083
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8308-0 / 9781400883080