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Evolutionary rescue in structured populations.
The American naturalist - 1 Jan 2014
Uecker Hildegard, Otto Sarah P, Hermisson Joachim
Abstract excerpt
Environmental change, if severe, can drive a population extinct unless the population succeeds in adapting to the new conditions. How likely is a population to win the race between population decline and adaptive evolution? Assuming that environmental degradation progresses across a habitat, we analyze the impact of several ecological factors on the probability of evolutionary rescue. Specifically, we study the...
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