Linking evolutionary potential to extinction risk: applications and future directions

BR Forester, EA Beever, C Darst… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Extinction‐risk assessments play a major role in prioritizing conservation action at national
and international levels. However, quantifying extinction risk is challenging, especially when …

When will a changing climate outpace adaptive evolution?

RA Martin, CRB da Silva, MP Moore… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Decades of research have illuminated the underlying ingredients that determine the scope
of evolutionary responses to climate change. The field of evolutionary biology therefore …

Considering adaptive genetic variation in climate change vulnerability assessment reduces species range loss projections

O Razgour, B Forester, JB Taggart… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Local adaptations can determine the potential of populations to respond to environmental
changes, yet adaptive genetic variation is commonly ignored in models forecasting species …

Genomic signals of selection predict climate-driven population declines in a migratory bird

RA Bay, RJ Harrigan, VL Underwood, HL Gibbs… - Science, 2018 - science.org
The ongoing loss of biodiversity caused by rapid climatic shifts requires accurate models for
predicting species' responses. Despite evidence that evolutionary adaptation could mitigate …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic diversity is considered important but interpreted narrowly in country reports to the Convention on Biological Diversity: Current actions and indicators …

S Hoban, CD Campbell, JM da Silva, R Ekblom… - Biological …, 2021 - Elsevier
International agreements such as the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) have
committed to conserve, and sustainably and equitably use, biodiversity. The CBD is a vital …

Linking a mutation to survival in wild mice

RDH Barrett, S Laurent, R Mallarino, SP Pfeifer… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Adaptive evolution in new or changing environments can be difficult to predict because the
functional connections between genotype, phenotype, and fitness are complex. Here, we …

[HTML][HTML] How will mosquitoes adapt to climate warming?

LI Couper, JE Farner, JM Caldwell, ML Childs… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
The potential for adaptive evolution to enable species persistence under a changing climate
is one of the most important questions for understanding impacts of future climate change …

Global commitments to conserving and monitoring genetic diversity are now necessary and feasible

S Hoban, MW Bruford, WC Funk, P Galbusera… - Bioscience, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Global conservation policy and action have largely neglected protecting and monitoring
genetic diversity—one of the three main pillars of biodiversity. Genetic diversity (diversity …

Genomic models predict successful coral adaptation if future ocean warming rates are reduced

RA Bay, NH Rose, CA Logan, SR Palumbi - Science Advances, 2017 - science.org
Population genomic surveys suggest that climate-associated genetic variation occurs widely
across species, but whether it is sufficient to allow population persistence via evolutionary …

[HTML][HTML] Restore or redefine: Future trajectories for restoration

MA Coleman, G Wood, K Filbee-Dexter… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Global habitat deterioration of marine ecosystems has led to a need for active interventions
to halt or reverse the loss of ecological function. Restoration has historically been a key tool …