Quantitative-genetic analysis of directional adaptation suggests low maximum sustainable rates of change in agreement with data from field populations.

Abstract excerpt

What rates of directional change are species likely to be capable of sustaining indefinitely such as in response to a warming climate? We derive estimates of the maximum rates of phenotypic change that populations can sustain in response to a directionally changing environment, using a quantitative genetics simulation model whose parameters are calibrated with data from natural populations. Sustainable...

Topics

• Climate Change
• Adaptation, Physiological
• Models, Genetic
• Genetics, Population
• Phenotype