A critique for eco-evolutionary dynamics
A critique for eco-evolutionary dynamics
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DOI：
10.1111/1365-2435.13244
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发表时间：
2019-01-01
影响因子：
5.2
通讯作者：
Hendry, Andrew P.
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作者：
Hendry, Andrew P.
越来越多的实证工作支持并说明了遗传变异和当代进化在塑造种群、群落和生态系统层面的生态动态方面的作用。虽然已经取得了很大的进展，但我认为，对几种常见的经验和推理方法的依赖限制了关键领域的进展，这使我提出了一些建议。更多的研究应该集中在揭示生态进化动力学，因为它们在“真实世界”中发挥作用，而不是实验室和中观世界。在群落和生态系统一级，应加强努力，强调通过人口密度发挥作用的进化的重要性，而不是只对人均产生直接影响。更多的工作应该针对整个群落进化的影响，而不是仅仅针对特定焦点物种的进化。需要新的和创新的方法来研究自然选择如何抵抗进化和生态变化，从而产生神秘的生态进化动力学。虽然对任何一个研究方案来说，在所有这些方面同时取得进展也许是不可能的，但即使是在一个或多个领域取得进展，也可以大大提高我们对生态进化动态的普遍性、力量和相关性的理解。
A growing body of empirical work supports and informs the role of genetic variation and contemporary evolution in shaping ecological dynamics at the population, community and ecosystem levels. Although much progress has been made, I contend that reliance on several common empirical and inferential approaches is limiting forward progress in key areas, which leads me to several suggestions. More studies should focus on revealing eco-evolutionary dynamics as they play out in the "real world," as opposed to laboratories and mesocosms. At the community and ecosystem levels, increasing effort should be directed towards the importance of evolution acting through population density, as opposed to only direct per-capita effects. More work should be directed towards the effects of whole-community evolution, as opposed to the evolution of only particular focal species. New and innovative approaches are needed for studying how natural selection resists evolutionary and ecological change, thus generating cryptic eco-evolutionary dynamics. Although simultaneous improvement on all of these fronts is perhaps impossible for any single research programme, even advances in one or more areas could dramatically improve our understanding of the prevalence, power and relevance of eco-evolutionary dynamics.