Ecosystem Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, a New Frontier for Experiments and Models
Ecosystem Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, a New Frontier for Experiments and Models
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生态系统生态学和进化生物学，实验和模型的新领域
作者：
J. Pastor
我们完全不知道的最重要的科学问题之一是生态系统过程是如何随着人口的进化而变化的。生态系统过程中的这些变化是由生物体特征的进化变化推动的，反过来可能对进化的种群施加额外的选择压力。理解生态系统和进化过程之间的这些反馈是21世纪进化和生态系统理论和实验的挑战。本文回顾了最近的一些实证和理论研究，这些研究开始揭示这些反馈的复杂性，并对未来的方向和下一代学生的培养提出了建议。
One of the most important scientific problems about which we are profoundly ignorant is how ecosystem processes change as populations evolve. These changes in ecosystem processes are propelled by evolutionary changes in organism traits and in turn may exert additional selection pressures on the evolving populations. Understanding these feedbacks between ecosystem and evolutionary processes is a challenge for evolutionary and ecosystem theory and experiments in the 21st century. This essay reviews some recent empirical and theoretical studies which are beginning to shed light on the complexity of these feedbacks and makes suggestions for future directions and the training of the next generation of students.