Limits to the adaptive potential of small populations

By Y. Willi, J. Van Buskirk, A. Hoffmann. 2006

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics

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Land ahead: using genome scans to identify molecular markers of adaptive relevance (2008, background): “Gene flow can have large effects on the adaptive response of populations as it either prevents local adaptation or introduces adaptively beneficial alleles into populations (Stockwell et al. 2003; Willi et al. 2006).”
Conservation implications of species–genetic diversity correlations (2014, background): “…with variation in any particular phenotypic characteristic (Reed and Frankham, 2001), it can be expected to reflect evolvability and adaptive potential in the long-term due to its link with effective population size (Robertson, 1960; Frankham, 2005b; Willi et al., 2006; Lanfear et al., 2014).”
Towards an Integrated Framework for Assessing the Vulnerability of Species to Climate Change (2008, background): “That is, species with restricted ranges or small populations are predicted to have reduced capacity to adapt to environmental change [27], both because genetic variation and potential response to selection should be positively correlated with population size and because individuals should have lower”
Banking on the future: progress, challenges and opportunities for the genetic conservation of forest trees (2017, background): “…isolation are of particular concern because they may result in susceptibility to genetic drift and inbreeding (Jaramillo-Correa et al. 2009), reducing the fitness of populations (Reed and Frankham 2003) and their capacity to adapt to changing environmental conditions (Willi et al. 2006 ).”
A framework for incorporating evolutionary genomics into biodiversity conservation and management (2015, background): “The level of neutral variation in threatened and non-threatened species can also provide an indirect but reasonable indication of adaptive diversity when this is dependent on factors like population size [142,143].”
Building evolutionary resilience for conserving biodiversity under climate change (2010, background): “Adaptive genetic variation is expected to decrease alongside neutral genetic variation but follow a different trajectory depending on the patterns of selection acting on traits (Willi et al. 2006).”
Bringing the Hutchinsonian niche into the 21st century: Ecological and evolutionary perspectives (2009, background): “Evolutionary biologists often assume that characters always have genetic variation upon which natural selection can act, but there is growing evidence that in some species, genetic variation may be absent for key traits determining niches and range limits, particularly in sparse populations prone to”
Assessing the benefits and risks of translocations in changing environments: a genetic perspective (2011, background): “This species, once widespread across western Victoria (Australia), is now extinct in the wild on mainland Australia and only persists as part of a captive breeding programme at Zoos Victoria (Winnard and Coulson 2008).”
Assisted Gene Flow to Facilitate Local Adaptation to Climate Change (2013, background): “Small populations are less likely to experience evolutionary rescue than are large populations because their small size makes them more likely to be extirpated prior to adaptation and because they likely lack the genetic diversity needed to fuel adaptation (Willi et al. 2006).”
Abundant Genetic Variation + Strong Selection = Multivariate Genetic Constraints: A Geometric View of Adaptation (2009, background): “There are few examples of traits that have been shown to have very low levels of genetic variance (Blows & Hoffmann 2005), and only the smallest of population sizes in nature appear to have an effect on the maintenance of genetic variation (Willi et al. 2007).”
Heritability is not Evolvability (2011, background): “…literature on definitions, dynamics and determinants of evolvability (see e.g. Wagner and Altenberg 1996; Schlichting and Murren 2004; Hansen 2006; Willi et al. 2006; Hendrikse et al. 2007; Polly 2008; Brookfield 2009 for review), but there has been little discussion of how to quantify the…”
Impacts of global climate change on the floras of oceanic islands – Projections, implications and current knowledge (2015, background): “Also, low genetic variability and an associated limitation of adaptational potential (Willi et al., 2006), higher inbreeding rates (homozygosity, genetic erosion) and higher impacts of genetic drift may cause instability in small populations (Ellstrand and Elam, 1993; Frankham, 1997; Schaal and…”
Founding events in species invasions: genetic variation, adaptive evolution, and the role of multiple introductions (2008, background): “…variance to additive variance (Goodnight 1988; Whitlock et al. 1993; Willis & Orr 1993; Cheverud & Routman 1996; Wang et al. 1998; Kirkpatrick & Jarne 2000; López-Fanjul et al. 2002; Naciri-Graven & Goudet 2003; Zhang et al. 2004; Turelli & Barton 2006; Van Buskirk & Willi 2006; Willi et al. 2006).”