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TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
Volume 30, Issue 3, Pages 154-160Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2015.01.002
Keywords
maladaptation; biodiversity; eco-evolutionary dynamics; island biogeography; species interactions; gene flow
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- European Research Council (ERC Starter Grant NatHisGen) [R/129639]
- Royal Society of London (University Research Fellowship)
- British Ecological Society [4878-5918]
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Current research on eco-evolutionary dynamics is mainly concerned with understanding the role of rapid (or 'contemporary') evolution in structuring ecological patterns. We argue that the current eco-evolutionary research program, which focuses largely on natural selection, should be expanded to more explicitly consider other evolutionary processes such as gene flow. Because multiple evolutionary processes interact to generate quantitative variation in the degree of local maladaptation, we focus on how studying the ecological effects of maladaptation will lead to a more comprehensive view of how evolution can influence ecology. We explore how maladaptation can influence ecology through the lens of island biogeography theory, which yields some novel predictions, such as patch isolation increasing species richness.
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