个性化文献订阅>期刊> Science
 

Modeling Effects of Environmental Change on Wolf Population Dynamics, Trait Evolution, and Life History

  作者 Coulson, T; MacNulty, DR; Stahler, DR; Vonholdt, B; Wayne, RK; Smith, DW  
  选自 期刊  Science;  卷期  2011年334-6060;  页码  1275-1278  
  关联知识点  
 

[摘要]Environmental change has been observed to generate simultaneous responses in population dynamics, life history, gene frequencies, and morphology in a number of species. But how common are such eco-evolutionary responses to environmental change likely to be? Are they inevitable, or do they require a specific type of change? Can we accurately predict eco-evolutionary responses? We address these questions using theory and data from the study of Yellowstone wolves. We show that environmental change is expected to generate eco-evolutionary change, that changes in the average environment will affect wolves to a greater extent than changes in how variable it is, and that accurate prediction of the consequences of environmental change will probably prove elusive.

 
      被申请数(0)  
 

[全文传递流程]

一般上传文献全文的时限在1个工作日内