Unpredictable Evolution in a 30-Year Study of Darwin's Finches

By P. Grant, B. Grant. Science, 2002

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics

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Constraints to projecting the effects of climate change on mammals (2006, background): “Even in some of the most actively studied vertebrate populations, future evolutionary changes have been notoriously difficult to predict (Grant & Grant 2002).”
Human influences on rates of phenotypic change in wild animal populations (2008, background): “Third, natural populations may experience strong selection on short time intervals, but the direction of selection may vary through time and therefore cancel out over longer time intervals (Gingerich 2001; Kinnison & Hendry 2001; Grant & Grant 2002; Estes & Arnold 2007).”
Rapid evolution and the convergence of ecological and evolutionary time (2005, background): “…the Grants and their colleagues have understandably focused on years of marked directional evolution (e.g. Boag & Grant 1981; Grant & Grant 1993, 1995; Grant et al. 2000), Grant & Grant (2002) have also reported values for selection differentials in other years where evolution was less dramatic.”
Assessing changes in age and size at maturation in collapsing populations of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) (2005, neutral): “For instance, the 46 beak size of Darwin’s finches (Geospiza fortis) on the Galapagos Islands evolved in response 47 to a drought episode occurring within the timescale of one generation (Grant and Grant 2002).”
Fitness landscape of Atlantic cod shaped by harvest selection and natural selection (2011, background): “significant evolutionary component (Reznick et al. 1990; Grant and Grant 2002; Olsen et al. 2004).”
Climate change and evolution: disentangling environmental and genetic responses (2008, background): “In the same vein, the microevolutionary responses of Darwin’s finches ( Geospitza fortis ) on two episodes of climate-mediated selection (Grant & Grant 1995, 2002) E V O L U T I O N I N C H A N G I N G E N V I R O N M E N T S 171 © 2007 The Authors Journal compilation © 2007 Blackwell Publishing…”
Synthetic analyses of phenotypic selection in natural populations: lessons, limitations and future directions (2012, background): “…of phenotypic selection due to the limited number of studies which report standard errors of selection coefficients, and the difficulty in accounting for potential autocorrelation among estimates of selection based on spatial, temporal, and phylogenetic similarity (Gurevitch and Hedges 1999).”
Climate change and birds: perspectives and prospects from southern Africa (2004, background): “…temperature; (iii) Pitcher Plant Mosquitos’ (Wyeomyia smithii ) photoperiod responses to global warming; among birds, (iv) Darwin’s Finch Geospiza fortis body size and bill size changes in response to climatic changes and seed size abundance (Grant and Grant 2002, review in Stockwell et al. 2003).”
Genetic variation and phenotypic plasticity: Causes of morphological and dietary variation in Eurasian perch (2006, background): “Variations in resources might also be due to abiotic environmental variations, such as unpredictable environmental variation that changes relative prey abundances (e.g. Grant, 1986; Grant and Grant, 2002; Stenseth et al., 2002).”
Adaptation and diversification on islands (2009, background): “A particularly powerful approach is to combine studies of ongoing natural selection and microevolutionary change with phylogenetic analyses of evolutionary patterns in deeper, macroevolutionary, time 7,8 , an approach that in some cases can even be experimental 9 .”