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SUBMITTER: Ramsayer J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3684742 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ramsayer Johan J Kaltz Oliver O Hochberg Michael E ME
Evolutionary applications 20130204 4
Environmental change represents a major threat to species persistence. When change is rapid, a population's only means of persisting may be to evolve resistance. Understanding such 'evolutionary rescues' is important for conservation in the face of global change, but also in the agricultural and medical sciences, where the objective is rather population control or eradication. Theory predicts that evolutionary rescue is fostered by large populations and genetic variation, but this has yet to be ...[more]