Demographic constraints in evolution: Towards unifying the evolutionary theories of senescence and niche conservatism

By Robert D. Holt. Evolutionary Ecology, 2005

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

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Limits to evolution at range margins: when and why does adaptation fail? (2007, background): “55, 283–296 36 Holt, R.D. et al. (2004) Temporal variation can facilitate niche evolution in harsh sink environments.”
SPECIATION AND ECOLOGY REVISITED: PHYLOGENETIC NICHE CONSERVATISM AND THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES (2004, background): “Habitat selection will also reduce opportunities for adaptation to conditions outside of the niche, because populations cannot adapt to conditions to which they are not exposed (e.g., Rosenzweig 1987; Holt 1996).”
Conceptual issues in local adaptation (2004, background): “At such an equilibrium the population has a source-sink structure, characterized by asymmetric gene flow (Holt & Gaines 1992; Dias 1996), which makes it difficult for alleles improving adaptation in a sink habitat to spread (Holt & Gaines 1992; Kawecki 1995; Holt 1996).”
INTERPRETATION OF MODELS OF FUNDAMENTAL ECOLOGICAL NICHES AND SPECIES' DISTRIBUTIONAL AREAS (2005, background): “In theory (Holt 1996a, b; Holt & Gaines 1992; Holt & Gomulkiewicz 1996; Kawecki 1995), and in the limited experiments carried out to date (Etterson & Shaw 2001), effects of evolution in niche parameters over short periods of time appear minor.”
Niche differentiation in Mexican birds: using point occurrences to detect ecological innovation (2003, background): “Theoretical studies of evolution in heterogeneous environments (Holt & Gaines 1992; Kawecki 1995, 2000; Holt 1996, 2003; Holt & Gomulkiewicz 1997; Kirkpatrick & Barton 1997; Tufto 2001; Kawecki & Holt 2002; Proulx 2002) provide a framework for understanding how niche conservatism can reflect the i”
DETECTING ECOLOGICAL TRADE-OFFS USING SELECTION EXPERIMENTS (2003, background): “This raises the questions of whether T. urticae populations could adapt to such hosts, and if so, whether the adaptation would involve a loss of fitness on initially more favorable hosts.”
Biodiversity and Climate Change: Integrating Evolutionary and Ecological Responses of Species and Communities (2010, background): “The causes of niche conservatism involve the interactions between stabilizing selection, lack of appropriate genetic variation, genetic constraints due to pleiotropy, and gene flow that prevent adaptation to new niches (Holt 1996).”
Niche Conservatism: Integrating Evolution, Ecology, and Conservation Biology (2005, background): “If ecological conditions reduce fitness or population growth outside the niche, then natural selection should favor traits that keep individuals inside the niche (Holt 1996, Holt & Gaines 1992).”
Climate Change and Biodiversity: Some Considerations in Forecasting Shifts in Species' Potential Distributions (2005, background): “…situation, models will also underrepresent potential distributional areas, given the species’ ability to adapt to new conditions; however, theoretical and empirical evidence strongly suggests that adaptation is less frequent than migration (Holt 1996; Hughes 2000; Martínez-Meyer et al. 2004).”
On the evolutionary ecology of species' ranges (2003, background): “In some settings, the force of selection may be strong for improving adaptation to the sink or low-K habitats (Holt, 1996b), so that a species initially largely confined to one habitat may evolve habitat generalization and expand its range.”