Adaptation, Plasticity, and Extinction in a Changing Environment: Towards a Predictive Theory

Luis-Miguel Chevin, Russell Lande and Georgina M Mace

PLOS Biology, 2010, vol. 8, issue 4, 1-8

Abstract: The authors analyze developmental, genetic, and demographic mechanisms by which populations tolerate changing environments and discuss empirical methods for determining the critical rate of sustained environmental change that causes population extinction.

Date: 2010
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