Keywords:
Conservation biology.
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Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
Bringing together conservation genetics, demography, and ecology, this book presents an integrative approach to managing species as well as ecological and evolutionary processes. Written by experts for students, practitioners and researchers in conservation biology, ecology, genetics, and evolution, the volume introduces the area of evolutionary conservation biology.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (447 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780511210655
Series Statement:
Cambridge Studies in Adaptive Dynamics Series ; v.Series Number 4
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=266564
DDC:
333.9516
Language:
English
Note:
Intro -- Contents -- Contributing Authors -- Acknowledgments -- Notational Standards -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Demography, Genetics, and Ecology in Conservation Biology -- 1.2 Toward an Evolutionary Conservation Biology -- 1.3 Environmental Challenges and Evolutionary Responses -- 1.4 Evolutionary Conservation Biology in Practice -- 1.5 Structure of this Book -- 2 From Individual Interactions to Population Viability -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 From Individual Interactions to Density Dependence -- The simplest density-dependent models -- Density-dependent models in discrete time -- Allee effects -- 2.3 Demographic and Interaction Stochasticities -- Time to extinction under demographic stochasticity -- Effect of interaction stochasticity -- Branching processes and quasi-stationarity -- 2.4 Environmental Stochasticity -- Accounting for individual interactions and demographic stochasticity -- The effect of environmental autocorrelation -- 2.5 Density Dependence and the Measure of Extinction Risk -- 2.6 Concluding Comments -- 3 Age Structure, Mating System, and Population Viability -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Extinction Risk in Age-structured Populations -- Essentials about structured deterministic models -- Factors of population regulation and extinction -- 3.3 Effect of Sexual Structure on Population Viability -- Deterministic two-sex models -- Influence of sexual reproduction on the extinction risk -- Sexual selection and extinction -- 3.4 Interfacing Demography and Genetics -- 3.5 Concluding Comments -- 4 Spatial Dimensions of Population Viability -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Deterministic versus Stochastic Metapopulation Models -- Metapopulations with few patches -- Metapopulations with many patches -- 4.3 Threshold Phenomena and Basic Reproduction Ratios -- Basic reproduction ratios and persistence -- Persistence and viability.
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4.4 Modeling Structured Metapopulations -- Defining the environmental interaction variable -- Defining the basic entity -- Defining basic reproduction ratios -- 4.5 Metapopulation Structured by Local Population Density -- Metapopulation persistence -- Metapopulation viability -- Toward more realistic models -- 4.6 Persistence of Finite Metapopulations: Stochastic Models -- Predictions from a spatially explicit stochastic model -- New introductions -- Between stochastic and deterministic models -- 4.7 Concluding Comments -- 5 Responses to Environmental Change: Adaptation or Extinction -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Types of Abiotic Environmental Change -- 5.3 Adaptive Responses to Climate Change -- Physiological and phenological effects of climate change -- Rapid adaptations to local climate conditions -- 5.4 Adaptive Responses to Thermal Stress -- 5.5 Adaptive Responses to Pollution -- 5.6 Adaptive Responses in Endangered Species -- 5.7 Concluding Comments -- 6 Empirical Evidence for Rapid Evolution -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Guppy Life-history Evolution -- The association between predation and life histories -- 6.3 Selection Experiments -- Methods -- Results -- Intensity of natural selection on different traits -- 6.4 Limits to Adaptation -- Modeling population dynamics -- Modeling genetic dynamics -- 6.5 Conditions that Favor Rapid Evolution -- 6.6 Concluding Comments -- 7 Genetic Variability and Life-history Evolution -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Genetic Variation and Life Histories -- 7.3 Forces that Maintain Genetic Variation in Life-history Traits -- Mutation -- Frequency-dependent selection -- Dominance variance and heterozygote advantage -- Spatial and temporal variation in fitness -- Sexual antagonism -- Genetic correlations -- 7.4 How Much Variation is There? -- Measuring variation in quantitative traits.
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Can we estimate quantitative variation from molecular variation? -- General patterns of genetic variability -- Effects of small population size and inbreeding -- 7.5 Inbreeding Depression in Life-history Traits -- Measuring inbreeding depression -- General patterns of inbreeding depression -- Population size and purging of inbreeding depression in animals -- A case study of purging in an endangered mammal -- 7.6 Concluding Comments -- 8 Environmental Stress and Quantitative Genetic Variation -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Hypotheses and Predictions -- Hypotheses on the effect of stress on quantitative genetic variation -- Predictions from models of genetic variation under stress -- 8.3 Stress and Phenotypic Variation -- Increased phenotypic variation under stress -- Fluctuating asymmetry does not reliably show stress exposure -- 8.4 Stress and Genetic Variation -- Collecting experimental results -- Trait-specific effects of stress on genetic variation -- Causes of higher genetic variance in size-related traits under stress -- 8.5 Experimental Selection under Stress -- 8.6 Concluding Comments -- 9 Fixation of New Mutations in Small Populations -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Purging and Fitness Changes in Declining Populations -- 9.3 Fixation of Deleterious Mutations: Mutational Meltdown -- 9.4 Factors Affecting Fixation of Deleterious Mutations -- Effective population size and the Hill-Robertson effect -- Distribution of mutational effects -- Dominance -- Epistasis -- Nongenetic fitness compensation -- Sex and selfing -- 9.5 Fixation of Beneficial Mutations -- Rate of back, beneficial, and compensatory mutations -- Rate of fixation of beneficial mutations in small populations -- Rate of fixation of mutations in declining populations -- 9.6 Time Scales for Extinction, Evolution, and Conservation -- 9.7 Concluding Comments.
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10 Quantitative-Genetic Models and Changing Environments -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Quantitative Genetics and Response to Selection -- 10.3 Adaptation and Extinction in Changing Environments -- Sustained directional change -- Pleiotropy and changing optima -- Periodic change -- Stochastic fluctuations -- Single abrupt change -- 10.4 Concluding Comments -- 11 Adaptive Dynamics and Evolving Biodiversity -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Adaptation versus Optimization -- Optimization in earlier evolutionary theory -- The quest for suitable optimization criteria -- Optimization arguments in evolutionary game theory -- Limitations to the existence of optimization criteria -- Evolutionary stability and attainability -- Optimization and population viability -- 11.3 Adaptive Dynamics Theory -- Invasion fitness -- Evolutionary singularities and their properties -- 11.4 Adaptive Evolution and the Origin of Diversity -- Conservation and speciation -- Determinants of evolving biodiversity -- Adaptive speciation -- Area effects on adaptive speciation -- 11.5 Adaptive Evolution and the Loss of Diversity -- Evolutionary deterioration, collapse, and suicide -- Evolutionary deterioration -- Evolutionary collapse -- Evolutionary suicide -- Catastrophic bifurcations and evolutionary suicide -- Further examples of evolutionary suicide -- Evolutionary suicide in sexual populations -- Extinction driven by coevolutionary dynamics -- Summary -- 11.6 Adaptive Responses to Environmental Change -- Ecology-evolution-environment diagrams -- Ecological and evolutionary penalties of environmental change -- Evolutionary rescue, trapping, and induced suicide -- More complex forms of evolutionary trapping -- 11.7 Concluding Comments -- 12 Genetic Structure in Heterogeneous Environments -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Basic Models of Population Genetic Structure.
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12.3 Adding Geography: The Stepping-stone Model -- 12.4 Metapopulation Processes and Population Differentiation -- Effects of colonization-extinction processes -- Effects of local population dynamics -- 12.5 Metapopulation Processes and Effective Population Size -- 12.6 The Effect of Selection on Differentiation: The Island Model -- Spatial structure of selected genes -- Spatial structure of genes linked to selected genes -- 12.7 Structure and Selection in Source-Sink Metapopulations -- Neutral genetic structure -- Fixation of beneficial alleles -- 12.8 Concluding Comments -- 13 Conservation Implications of Niche Conservatism and Evolution in Heterogeneous Environments -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 Adaptations to Temporal Environmental Change -- 13.3 Adaptations in Population Sources and Sinks -- 13.4 Adaptations along Environmental Gradients -- 13.5 Conservation Implications -- 13.6 Concluding Comments -- 14 Adaptive Responses to Landscape Disturbances: Theory -- 14.1 Introduction -- 14.2 Selection for Low Dispersal -- Deterministically fluctuating populations -- Environmental disturbances -- Demographic stochasticity -- 14.3 Dispersal Evolution and Metapopulation Viability -- Effect on population size -- Evolutionary suicide in dispersal evolution -- 14.4 Metapopulation Viability in Changing Environments -- Landscape heterogeneity -- Increased fragmentation -- Catastrophe rate and temporal uniformization -- 14.5 Concluding Comments -- 15 Adaptive Responses to Landscape Disturbances: Empirical Evidence -- 15.1 Introduction -- 15.2 Responses of Migration to Landscape Fragmentation -- Effects of patch isolation -- Effects of patch size in relation to other life-history traits -- Effects of colonization opportunities -- 15.3 Fragmentation, Migration, and Local Adaptation -- Adaptation to local hosts -- Adaptation to anthropogenic habitat change.
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15.4 The Example of Centaurea Species.
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