Surviving environmental change: when increasing population size can increase extinction risk.

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Populations threatened by an abrupt environmental change-due to rapid climate change, pathogens or invasive competitors-may survive if they possess or generate genetic combinations adapted to the novel, challenging condition. If these genotypes are initially rare or non-existent, the emergence of lineages that allow a declining population to survive is known as 'evolutionary rescue'. By contrast, the genotypes...

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