Adaptation in Metapopulations: How Interaction Changes Evolution

by Michael Wade

Book Overview

All organisms live in clusters, but such fractured local populations, or demes, nonetheless maintain connectivity with one another by some amount of gene flow between them. Most such metapopulations occur naturally, like clusters of amphibians in vernal ponds or baboon troops spread across the African veldt. Others have been created as human activities fragment natural landscapes, as in stands of trees separated by roads. As landscape change has accelerated,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022612973X
• ISBN13: 9780226129730
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"