Evolutionary rescue in a fluctuating environment: periodic versus quasi-periodic environmental changes.

Abstract excerpt

No environment is constant over time, and environmental fluctuations impact the outcome of evolutionary dynamics. Survival of a population not adapted to some environmental conditions is threatened unless, for example, a mutation rescues it, an eco-evolutionary process termed evolutionary rescue. We here investigate evolutionary rescue in an environment that fluctuates between a favourable state, in which the...

Topics

• Biological Evolution
• Adaptation, Physiological
• Environment
• Mutation
• Population Dynamics