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ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH
Volume 26, Issue 2, Pages 239-251Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1007/s11284-011-0807-6
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Arms race; Climate change; Coevolution; Community ecology; Productivity gradients
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- Hakubi center, Kyoto University
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Organisms are surrounded by their predators, parasites, hosts, and mutualists, being involved in reciprocal adaptation processes with such biotic environment. The concept of coevolution, therefore, provides a basis for the comprehensive understanding of evolutionary and ecological dynamics in biological communities and ecosystems. Recent studies have shown that coevolutionary processes are spatially heterogeneous and that traits mediating interspecific interactions can evolve rapidly in natural communities. Here, I discuss factors promoting the geographic differentiation of coevolutionary interactions, the spatial scales of the geographic structuring, and the pace of coevolutionary changes, reviewing findings in the arms race coevolution involving a long-mouthed weevil and its host camellia plant. Evolutionary, ecological, and population genetic studies on the system illuminated that viewpoints from the aspect of coevolving biosphere were important for predicting how ongoing anthropogenic change in global environment alter the spatiotemporal dynamics of biological communities.
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