Investigating Climate Change and Reproduction: Experimental Tools from Evolutionary Biology

摘要: It is now generally acknowledged that climate change has wide-ranging biological consequences, potentially leading to impacts on biodiversity. Environmental factors can have diverse and often strong effects reproduction, with obvious ramifications for population fitness. Nevertheless, reproductive traits are neglected in conservation considerations. Focusing animals, recent progress sexual selection conflict research suggests costs may pose an underestimated hurdle during rapid change, lowering adaptive potential increasing extinction risk of certain populations. regime shifts both negative positive so it important acquire detailed experimental data. We hence present overview the literature reporting short-term consequences exposure different environmental factors. From enormous diversity findings, we conclude could benefit greatly from more coordinated efforts incorporating evolutionary approaches order obtain cross-comparable data how individual fitness respond long term. Therefore, propose ideas methods concerning future dealing particular by highlighting advantages multi-generational evolution experiments.