A critique for eco‐evolutionary dynamics

By A. Hendry. Functional Ecology, 2019

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Eco‐evolutionary dynamics is an integrative field of research that fo‐ cuses on how ecological change influences evolutionary change, how evolutionary change influences ecological change, and how those two pathways (eco‐to‐evo and evo‐to‐eco) can sometimes feedback to influence each other (Hendry, 2017). Although these linkages have been discussed from a long‐term perspective (millions of years) since the origins of evolutionary biology (Darwin 1859), current em‐ phasis has been placed on how they play out over contemporary time‐scales, such as years to centuries. This shift in emphasis started with a growing body of work at the end of the twentieth century showing how the first part of the eco‐evolutionary dynamic (ecolog‐ ical change shaping evolutionary change) was reasonably common on contemporary time scales in nature (reviews: Hendry & Kinnison, 1999; Hendry, Farrugia, & Kinnison, 2008; Reznick & Ghalambor, 2001). Acceptance of this eco‐to‐evo reality set the stage for an ex‐ panding cadre of ecologists to begin considering the second (evolu‐ tionary change influencing ecological change) and third (feedback) parts of the eco‐evolutionary dynamic. In the present perspective, I discuss what this newer work has accomplished and, more impor‐ tantly, how it can improve into the future. Received: 18 June 2018 | Accepted: 14 November 2018 DOI: 10.1111/1365‐2435.13244

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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