Evolution in Changing Environments: Some Theoretical Explorations. (MPB-2)

摘要: Professor Levins, one of the leading explorers in field integrated population biology, considers mutual interpenetration and joint evolution organism environment, occurring on several levels at once. Physiological behavioral adaptations to short-term fluctuations environment condition responses populations long-term changes geographic gradients. These turn affect way species divide environments among themselves communities, and, therefore, numbers which can coexist. Environment is treated here abstractly as pattern: patchiness, variability, range, etc. Populations are studied their patterns: local heterogeneity, faunistic diversity,