Rescue or murder? The effect of prey adaptation to the predator subjected to fisheries.

ABSTRACT: The concept of "indirect evolutionary rescue" refers to the evolutionary adaptation of an interacting species that can save a focal species from extinction in an unfavorable environment. Although theories suggest that indirect evolutionary rescue may have essential impacts on catchments in the context of fisheries where artificial selection pressure from fishing can drive evolution, its generality and conditions remain uncertain. In this study, by investigating how prey adaptation affects the persistence of a predator subjected to selective harvest with an eco-evolutionary predator-prey model, we find that prey adaptation tends to deteriorate (facilitate) predator persistence when predator's evolvability is high (low). In the system where the predator possesses high evolvability, selection

SUBMITTER: Shang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11615651 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature