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Climate change and evolutionary adaptation.

Nature ·Vol. 470 ·No. 7335 ·2011-02-24 ·Pages 479-85

Hoffmann AA, Sgrò CM

Abstract

Evolutionary adaptation can be rapid and potentially help species counter stressful conditions or realize ecological opportunities arising from climate change. The challenges are to understand when evolution will occur and to identify potential evolutionary winners as well as losers, such as species lacking adaptive capacity living near physiological limits. Evolutionary processes also need to be incorporated into management programmes designed to minimize biodiversity loss under rapid climate change. These challenges can be met through realistic models of evolutionary change linked to experimental data across a range of taxa.

MeSH Terms
Adaptation, Physiological/genetics,physiology Animals Biodiversity Biological Evolution Climate Change/mortality Conservation of Natural Resources/methods Gene Flow Phylogeny
Authors & Affiliations
2 authors, click to expand affiliations / ORCID
Hoffmann Ary A
Departments of Zoology and Genetics, Bio21 Institute, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia. ary@unimelb.edu.au
Sgrò Carla M
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Article Info
Journal
Nature
Abbr.
Nature
ISSN
1476-4687
DOI
10.1038/nature09670
Email
ary@unimelb.edu.au
Published
2011-02-24
Pages
479-85
Language
English
Region
England
NLM ID
0410462
Subset
IM
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