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SUBMITTER: DeLong JP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4729258 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
DeLong John P JP Forbes Valery E VE Galic Nika N Gibert Jean P JP Laport Robert G RG Phillips Joseph S JS Vavra Janna M JM
Ecology and evolution 20160109 2
It is increasingly recognized that evolution may occur in ecological time. It is not clear, however, how fast evolution - or phenotypic change more generally - may be in comparison with the associated ecology, or whether systems with fast ecological dynamics generally have relatively fast rates of phenotypic change. We developed a new dataset on standardized rates of change in population size and phenotypic traits for a wide range of species and taxonomic groups. We show that rates of change in ...[more]