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SCIENCE
Volume 334, Issue 6060, Pages 1275-1278Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1209441
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- European Research Council
- Wellcome Trust
- Royal Society
- Natural Environment Research Council
- Wolfson Foundation
- NSF
- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/I023783/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- NERC [NE/I023783/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Direct For Biological Sciences
- Division Of Environmental Biology [1021397] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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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.
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