Evolution in Changing Environments (eBook)

Some Theoretical Explorations

Richard Levins (Autor)

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2020
132 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20941-8 (ISBN)

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Professor Levins, one of the leading explorers in the field of integrated population biology, considers the mutual interpenetration and joint evolution of organism and environment, occurring on several levels at once. Physiological and behavioral adaptations to short-term fluctuations of the environment condition the responses of populations to long-term changes and geographic gradients. These in turn affect the way species divide the environments among themselves in communities, and, therefore, the numbers of species which can coexist. Environment is treated here abstractly as pattern: patchiness, variability, range, etc. Populations are studied in their patterns: local heterogeneity, geographic variability, faunistic diversity, etc.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.3.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Monographs in Population Biology
• Reihe/Serie: Monographs in Population Biology
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
• Schlagworte: acclimatization • Adaptive Function • adaptive Radiation • adaptive system • Adaptive value • Addition • Allele • Ambiguity • aphid • Appendage • asymmetry • biogeography • Biological Process • breadth of niche • Carrying Capacity • Chromosomal inversion • Climax species • coarse-grained environment • Coevolution • complex network • concavity • Determinant • Developmental Biology • Diapause • diffusion process • Dimension • Directional selection • Diversity • Drosophila • ecological niche • Ecology • ecotype • Emergence • Enzyme • enzymes • epistasis • Equilibrium • estimation • Evolution • Evolutionary pressure • expected value • extreme environment • Facultative anaerobic organism • Fecundity • fine-grained environment • Fitness (biology) • fitness set • frequency-dependent selection • Gene • Gene Frequency • genetic assimilation • Genetic heterogeneity • genetic variance • Genotype • Genotype frequency • Grain • group selection • Heritability • Heterosis • Holism • homeostasis • Hybrid (biology) • Inbreeding • inference • Initial Condition • In Specie • Insular biogeography • Invertebrate • Levins, R. • linear regression • Linkage Disequilibrium • Long-term experiment • macroevolution • mating • Mendelian Inheritance • microevolution • microhabitat • mixed strategy • moulting • Mutation • mutation rate • Natural selection • Neoteny • niche • nonlinear system • nutrient • Obligate • Optimum • optimum conditions • organism • parameter, sufficient • Phenotype • Phenotypic trait • Polymorphism • population dynamics • Population Ecology • Population Genetics • Population Size • predation • Predictability • Prediction • Probability • Probability Distribution • Random Variable • range of environment • rapidity • Rate of evolution • Recurrence relation • result • selection • Simultaneous Equations • spatial heterogeneity • Special case • Specialization • Speciation • species • Systematics • Taxon • theory • Thermoregulation • Tolerance • total variation • Uncertainty
• ISBN-10: 0-691-20941-3 / 0691209413
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20941-8 / 9780691209418