TY - BOOK ID - 1008831 TI - Evolution in Changing Environments : Some Theoretical Explorations. (MPB-2) PY - 2012 VL - 2 SN - 0691079595 0691080623 0691209413 9780691079592 PB - Princeton, N.J : Baltimore, Md. : Princeton University Press, Project MUSE, DB - UniCat KW - Evolution. Phylogeny KW - Animal populations. KW - Animal population genetics. KW - Evolution. KW - Ecology. KW - Populationsbiologie. KW - Genetics, Population. KW - Biological Evolution. KW - Animal evolution KW - Animals KW - Biological evolution KW - Darwinism KW - Evolutionary biology KW - Evolutionary science KW - Origin of species KW - Biology KW - Evolution KW - Biological fitness KW - Homoplasy KW - Natural selection KW - Phylogeny KW - Philosophy KW - Creation KW - Emergence (Philosophy) KW - Teleology KW - Adaptive Function. KW - Drosophila. KW - Levins, R. KW - breadth of niche. KW - coarse-grained environment. KW - concavity. KW - diapause. KW - diversity. KW - enzymes. KW - equilibrium. KW - fine-grained environment. KW - fitness set. KW - grain. KW - homeostasis. KW - inbreeding. KW - microhabitat. KW - mixed strategy. KW - mutation. KW - niche. KW - optimum conditions. KW - optimum. KW - parameter, sufficient. KW - phenotype. KW - polymorphism. KW - range of environment. KW - selection. KW - specialization. KW - tolerance. KW - uncertainty. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:1008831 AB - Professor Levins, one of the leading explorers in the field of integrated population biology, considers the mutual interpenetration and joint evolution of organism and environment, occurring on several levels at once. Physiological and behavioral adaptations to short-term fluctuations of the environment condition the responses of populations to long-term changes and geographic gradients. These in turn affect the way species divide the environments among themselves in communities, and, therefore, the numbers of species which can coexist. Environment is treated here abstractly as pattern: patchiness, variability, range, etc. Populations are studied in their patterns: local heterogeneity, geographic variability, faunistic diversity, etc. ER -