Sentence examples for contemporary evolution of from inspiring English sources

Forest managers should consider adaptive management approaches that will consider the contemporary evolution of forest ecosystems in a changing environment.

Headland will be the first to tell you it's a sort of antidote to "Fifty Shades of Grey," which she says, along with "Gone Girl," is an example of the contemporary evolution of Austenian social satire.

In guppies, predator release drives contemporary evolution of life history traits, increasing age and size at maturity [14], [15].

Here we tested the role of predator removal on the contemporary evolution of trophic traits in prey.

Here we examined the effect of predator release on the contemporary evolution of morphology and feeding performance in an experimentally introduced guppy population.

O'Steen et al. [57] examined the contemporary evolution of predator escape ability in several guppy introduction experiments, including the set of populations we utilized here.

While there is a reasonably extensive literature on contemporary evolution, much of it in response to HIREC (Strauss et al. 2006; Hendry et al. 2011; Lankau et al. 2011), relatively few studies have focused on the evolution of behavioural responses to HIREC.

Recent studies of contemporary evolution have demonstrated rapid evolution of traits in a number of taxa (Hendry et al. 2008; Gingerich 2009).

However, examples of contemporary evolution in the context of predator-mediated divergence remain scarce [3] and often only document a change in a single population, which precludes broader generalizations of the observed patterns.

Cases of contemporary evolution in the context of predation often describe changes occurring in one population [23] but until recently, few studies had shown how entirely different sets of traits such as physical performance, behavior and/or morphology could change in parallel [24] over a short temporal scale [3].

To estimate the demographic cost of contemporary evolution in the form of selection on migrants, we can compare the observed population size to that estimated under the null selection model.