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SUBMITTER: Lo Cascio Sætre C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5263874 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lo Cascio Sætre Camilla C Coleiro Charles C Austad Martin M Gauci Mark M Sætre Glenn-Peter GP Voje Kjetil Lysne KL Eroukhmanoff Fabrice F
Nature communications 20170120
Real-time observation of adaptive evolution in the wild is rare and limited to cases of marked, often anthropogenic, environmental change. Here we present the case of a small population of reed warblers (Acrocephalus scirpaceus) over a period of 19 years (1996-2014) after colonizing a restored wetland habitat in Malta. Our data show a population decrease in body mass, following a trajectory consistent with a population ascending an adaptive peak, a so-called Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process. We corrob ...[more]