期刊
TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
卷 30, 期 5, 页码 273-281出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2015.03.007
关键词
bet-hedging; environmental stochasticity; fitness; phenotypic evolution; selection
资金
- European Research Council [ERC-2010-AdG 268562]
- Research Council of Norway [SFF-III 223257/F50]
Fitness is a central concept in evolutionary biology, but there is no unified definition. We review recent theoretical developments showing that including fluctuating environments and density dependence has important implications for how differences among phenotypes in their contributions to future generations should be quantified. The rate of phenotypic evolution will vary through time because of environmental stochasticity. Density dependence may produce fluctuating selection for large growth rates at low densities but for larger carrying capacities when population sizes are large. In general, including ecologically realistic assumptions when defining the concept of fitness is crucial for estimating the potential of evolutionary-rescue of populations affected by environmental perturbations such as climate change.
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