Eco-evolutionary Biology: Feeding and Feedback Loops

Andrew P Beckerman; Dylan Z Childs; Alan O Bergland

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2016.01.013

Eco-evolutionary Biology: Feeding and Feedback Loops

Curr Biol. 2016 Feb 22;26(4):R161-4. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.01.013.

Authors

Andrew P Beckerman¹, Dylan Z Childs², Alan O Bergland³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK. Electronic address: a.beckerman@sheffield.ac.uk.
² Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
³ Department of Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA.

PMID: 26906486
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.01.013

Abstract

A dogma in ecology and evolution holds that the environment is an extrinsic force that is not, in turn, shaped by the adaptive evolution of species. Recent work on stickleback life history, community ecology and speciation challenges this dogma.

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MeSH terms

Animals
Biological Evolution*
Ecology*
Environment
Feedback
Smegmamorpha

Grants and funding

F32 GM097837/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States