Extreme Environmental Change and Evolution
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- Authors:
- Ary A. Hoffmann, La Trobe University, Victoria
- Peter A. Parsons, La Trobe University, Victoria
- Date Published: July 1997
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521441070
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Most natural populations intermittently experience extremely stressful conditions. This book discusses how such conditions can cause periods of intense selection, increasing both phenotypic and genetic variation, and allowing organisms with novel characteristics to be first generated and then established in the population. The authors argue that stressful conditions can have a major impact on the environment, backing up their arguments with evidence from the fossil record. They suggest further that, as a consequence, periods of stress must be taken into consideration when long term conservation strategies are planned, particularly as stressful conditions are becoming increasingly prevalent as a result of human activities. This broad overview will be of great interest to students and researchers in the field of evolutionary biology, genetics, ecology, palaeontology and conservation biology.
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- Very trendy area of evolutionary biology due to awareness of human impact on the environment
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'In Extreme Environmental Change and Evolution Ary Hoffman and Peter Parsons explore in detail how environmental extremes can expose natural populations to the hard glare of natural selection. For an academic text, a remarkably stress-free read.' New Scientist
See more reviews'… provides a useful overview of the subject for teaching purposes and for those with a general interest in the subject.' Environmental Assessment
'… useful as a source of examples of instances where the environment had an effect on the distribution and evolution of a species.' Jacob C. Koella, Trends in Ecology and Evolution
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- Date Published: July 1997
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521441070
- length: 272 pages
- dimensions: 236 x 159 x 19 mm
- weight: 0.5kg
- contains: 71 b/w illus. 16 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Introduction
2. Variation under extreme environments
3. Natural selection in extreme environments
4. Limits to adaptation
5. Evolutionary outcomes: comparative and optimality approaches
6. Extinction, diversification and evolutionary rates
7. Conservation and future environmental change
References
Index.
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