Understanding Maladaptation by Uniting Ecological and Evolutionary Perspectives

• DOI: 10.1086/705020
• Publication Date: 2019-06-20T13:59:31Z
• Authors: Steven P. Brady; Daniel I. Bolnick; Rowan D. H. Barrett; Lauren Chapman; Erika Crispo; Alison M. Derry; Christopher G. Ec...; Dylan J. Fraser; Gregor F. Fussmann; Andrew Gonzalez; Frederic Guichard; Thomas Lamy; Jeffrey Lane; Andrew G. McAdam; Amy E. M. Newman; Antoine Paccard; Bruce Robertson; Gregor Rolshausen; Patricia M. Schulte; Andrew M. Simons; Mark Vellend; Andrew Hendry
• Keywords: Maladaptation; Fitness landscape

Evolutionary biologists have long trained their sights on adaptation, focusing the power of natural selection to produce relative fitness advantages while often ignoring changes in absolute fitness. Ecologists generally taken a different tack, abundance and ranges that reflect Uniting these perspectives, we articulate various causes maladaptation review numerous examples occurrence. This indicates is reasonably common from both yet contrasting ways. That is, can appear strong perspective, populations be growing abundance. Conversely, resident individuals locally adapted (relative nonresident individuals) declining Understanding interpreting disconnects between maladaptation, as well cases agreement, increasingly critical face accelerating human-mediated environmental change. We therefore present framework for studying particular relationship fitness, thereby drawing together evolutionary ecological perspectives. The unification perspectives has potential bring previously disjunct research areas addressing key conceptual issues specific practical problems.