Climate change poses critical challenges for population persistence in natural communities,
for agriculture and environmental sustainability, and for food security. In this review, we …

Individuals within natural populations can experience very different abiotic and biotic
conditions across small spatial scales owing to microtopography and other micro …

Species differ dramatically in their prevalence in the natural world, with many species
characterized as rare due to restricted geographic distribution, low local abundance and/or …

The complex interplay of the multiple genetic processes of evolution and the ecological
contexts in which they proceed frustrates detailed identification of many of the states of …

Ongoing adaptive evolution, and resulting “evolutionary rescue” of declining populations,
requires additive genetic variation in fitness. Such variation can be increased by gene flow …

Fisher's fundamental theorem of natural selection (FTNS) can be used in a quantitative
genetics framework to predict the rate of adaptation in populations. Here, we estimated the …

Nearly all organisms participate in multiple mutualisms, and complementarity within these
complex interactions can result in synergistic fitness effects. However, it remains largely …

Heritable genetic variation is necessary for populations to evolve in response to
anthropogenic climate change. However, antagonistic genetic correlations among traits may …

Environmental change, accelerated by anthropogenic activities, threatens many species and
can be especially challenging for rare species given their potentially limited capacity for …

Rapid environmental change is forcing populations into environments where plasticity will
no longer maintain fitness. When populations are exposed to novel environments …