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"The implication," he says, "is if modern reefs continue to degrade, that could have long-term evolutionary consequences for other ecosystems by cutting off the supply of new biodiversity".

Eldridge (1998), in addressing the same idea, notes that, "Complex ecosystems – with many different species eating many others, and with competition for finite resources between species with similar needs – mean that the least little change in one population has implications, even evolutionary consequences, for many others of the same system".

Regardless of the underlying cause(s) of extra-pair copulation, female promiscuity has significant evolutionary consequences for the reproductive biology of male Australian malurids.

The role of infanticide in mammalian social systems is controversial due to our poor understanding of infanticide frequency and motivation, and the evolutionary consequences for the victims and perpetrators [4].

Fluctuations in productivity can have evolutionary consequences for salmon, mediated through density-dependent processes (Einum et al., in press).

If anthropogenic nutrient inputs persist for longer periods, the evolutionary consequences for sexual selection are likely to be more complex.

In this review, we discuss what is known about the evolutionary consequences of fishing for salmon and address three central questions: First, what are the likely genetic consequences for salmon exposed to fishing, and what is the evidence?

Previous research on the evolutionary consequences of deforestation for rainforest birds has shown that fluctuating assymetry in tarsus length increases in response to deforestation, and a negative relationship between fluctuating assymetry and species' persistence in rainforest fragments [35], [36].

Thus the range of sperm competition levels observed in the Australian malurids reflects those observed across avian species generally, making them an ideal system for studying the evolutionary consequences of sperm competition for male reproductive biology.

To investigate potential evolutionary consequences of miRNA targeting for R-genes, we analyzed gains and losses within the predicted miRNA-target network (fig. 5 c and supplementary fig. S7, Supplementary Material online).

Currently, programs implemented to support rapidly declining species have attempted to address the impact of human-altered environments on the evolutionary processes of species in captivity (Smith and Bernatchez 2007), but it is clear that more attention is needed to deal with the evolutionary consequences of captive breeding for conservation (Frankham 2008; Pelletier et al. 2009).