Adapting to global change

摘要: A lot of effort has been spent in the last few decades demonstrating that climate is changing more rapidly now than it did through history and prehistory, reason for this rapid change anthropogenic action. In addition to changes, habitats are being directly modified, organisms acted upon. Some species shifting ranges on a global scale resulting invasions, causing habitat modifications, impacting interspecific interactions, generating diseases. Other persecuted or overharvested point they no longer able function their communities way historically (Jackson, 2008). This caused many become endangered even go extinct. The future prospects question. Will be survive such environmental changes? Are flexible enough adapt changes magnitude? Can we predict which at increased risk extinction? These questions complex require deep understanding how ecology evolution work, detailed knowledge taking place (Dawson et al., 2011). To address these questions, Estacion Biologica de Donana hosted an international conference entitled ‘Adapting Global Change’ Seville, Spain fall 2013. There were nearly 50 invited speakers nine symposia conveyed wide variety points view ecological evolutionary effects currently ongoing environment. special issue Evolutionary Ecology Research comes out congress, likewise reflects view. papers here provide hints as fundamental about interaction between environment will transformed near future.