UID:
almahu_9948043371302882
Format:
1 online resource :
,
illustrations (black and white)
ISBN:
9780226129877 (ebook) :
Content:
All organisms live in clusters, but such fractured local populations, or demes, nonetheless maintain connectivity with one another by some amount of gene flow between them. Most such metapopulations occur naturally, like clusters of amphibians in vernal ponds or baboon troops spread across the African veldt. Others have been created as human activities fragment natural landscapes, as in stands of trees separated by roads. As landscape change has accelerated, understanding how these metapopulations function - and specifically how they adapt - has become crucial to ecology and to our very understanding of evolution itself. With 'Adaptation in Metapopulations', Michael J. Wade explores a key component of this new understanding of evolution - interaction.
Note:
Previously issued in print: 2016.
Additional Edition:
Print version : ISBN 9780226129563
Language:
English
URL:
Chicago scholarship online
