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A Trade-Off between Robustness to Environmental Fluctuations and Speed of Evolution.
The American naturalist - 1 Jul 2022
Schmid Max, Paniw Maria, Postuma Maarten, Ozgul Arpat, Guillaume Frédéric
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AbstractUnderstanding how a species' life history affects its capacity to cope with environmental changes is important in the context of rapid climate changes. Reinterpreting previous results from a well-developed theoretical framework, we show that a trade-off exists between a species' ability to genetically adapt to long-term gradual environmental changes and its ability to demographically resist short-term...
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