Will life find a way out? Evolutionary rescue and Darwinian adaptation to climate change
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2019-09
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Results from ecological niche models usually indicate a worrying scenario in terms of biodiversity loss.Continuous efforts to improve these models (e.g., allowing for dispersal limitation) have recently beenupdated to include the potential of species’ persistence, in otherwise unsuitable regions, due to naturalselection (a process called evolutionary rescue). Here we discuss the major challenges in incorporatingevolutionary rescue in models evaluating the impacts of global changes on species distributions. Wealso highlight some alternatives to overcome these challenges using simulations. Based on the currentavailable evidence, we conclude that the potential of evolutionary rescue is low. However, due to thepaucity of data to feed evolutionary rescue models and the interaction with other factors (e.g. habitatfragmentation), we still do not know the potential of adaptation to rescue biodiversity from climatechange.
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Evolutionary rescue, Adaptation, Climate change, Simulation, Modeling, Warming
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DINIZ-FILHO, José Alexandre Felizola; BINI, Luis Mauricio. Will life find a way out? Evolutionary rescue and Darwinian adaptation to climate change. Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation, Barcelona, v. 17, n. 3, p. 117-121, July-Sept. 2019.