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Indirect evolutionary rescue: prey adapts, predator avoids extinction
| Content Provider | Scilit |
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| Author | Yamamichi, Masato Miner, Brooks E. |
| Copyright Year | 2015 |
| Description | Journal: Evolutionary Applications Recent studies have increasingly recognized evolutionary rescue (adaptive evolution that prevents extinction following environmental change) as an important process in evolutionary biology and conservation science. Researchers have concentrated on single species living in isolation, but populations in nature exist within communities of interacting species, so evolutionary rescue should also be investigated in a multispecies context. We argue that the persistence or extinction of a focal species can be determined solely by evolutionary change in an interacting species. We demonstrate that prey adaptive evolution can prevent predator extinction in two-species predator–prey models, and we derive the conditions under which this indirect evolutionary interaction is essential to prevent extinction following environmental change. A nonevolving predator can be rescued from extinction by adaptive evolution of its prey due to a trade-off for the prey between defense against predation and population growth rate. As prey typically have larger populations and shorter generations than their predators, prey evolution can be rapid and have profound effects on predator population dynamics. We suggest that this process, which we term ‘indirect evolutionary rescue’, has the potential to be critically important to the ecological and evolutionary responses of populations and communities to dramatic environmental change. |
| Related Links | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4561568/pdf |
| Ending Page | 795 |
| Page Count | 9 |
| Starting Page | 787 |
| ISSN | 17524571 |
| e-ISSN | 17524571 |
| DOI | 10.1111/eva.12295 |
| Journal | Evolutionary Applications |
| Issue Number | 8 |
| Volume Number | 8 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
| Publisher Date | 2015-08-13 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Journal: Evolutionary Applications Climate Change Community Evolutionary Rescue Contemporary Evolution Eco-evolutionary Dynamics Eco-evolutionary Feedback Environmental Change Phenotypic Plasticity Rapid Evolution |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Genetics Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics |
