Recent evolutionary history predicts population but not ecosystem-level patterns.

ABSTRACT: In the face of rapid anthropogenic environmental change, it is increasingly important to understand how ecological and evolutionary interactions affect the persistence of natural populations. Augmented gene flow has emerged as a potentially effective management strategy to counteract negative consequences of genetic drift and inbreeding depression in small and isolated populations. However, questions remain about the long-term impacts of augmented gene flow and whether changes in individual and population fitness are reflected in ecosystem structure, potentiating eco-evolutionary feedbacks. In this study, we used Trinidadian guppies (Poecilia reticulata) in experimental outdoor mesocosms to assess how populations with different recent evolutionary histories responded to a scenario o

SUBMITTER: Miller ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6953670 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature