Adapting to a Changing Environment: Modeling the Interaction of Directional Selection and Plasticity.

Abstract excerpt

Human-induced habitat loss and fragmentation constrains the range of many species, making them unable to respond to climate change by moving. For such species to avoid extinction, they must respond with some combination of phenotypic plasticity and genetic adaptation. Haldane's "cost of natural selection" limits the rate of adaptation, but, although modeling has shown that in very large populations long-term...

Topics

• Adaptation, Biological
• Biological Evolution
• Climate Change
• Environment
• Genetic Fitness
• Genetic Variation
• Genetics, Population
• Genotype
• Models, Genetic
• Phenotype
• Selection, Genetic