Evolutionary ecology
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Evolutionary ecology lies at the intersection of ecology and evolutionary biology. It approaches the study of ecology in a way that explicitly considers the evolutionary histories of species and the interactions between them. Conversely, it can be seen as an approach to the study of evolution that incorporates an understanding of the interactions between the species under consideration. The main subfields of evolutionary ecology are life history evolution, sociobiology (the evolution of social behavior), the evolution of interspecific relations (cooperation, predator-prey interactions, parasitism, mutualism) and the evolution of biodiversity and of communities.
Pristine, natural environments that have been relatively unaltered by humans are of particular importance in evolutionary ecology because they constitute the environments to which any particular organism has become adapted to over time.[1]
Contents
Evolutionary ecologists
- Charles Darwin, whose theory of natural selection is essential background to understanding evolutionary ecology and had explicitly include population dynamics;
- George Evelyn Hutchinson
- Robert MacArthur
- Eric Pianka
- Michael Rosenzweig
- David Lack
- R. A. Fisher whose 1930 fundamental theorem of natural selection recognised the power of rigorous application of the theory of natural selection to population biology.[2]
Evolutionary models
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Current research
Research is going into how organisms became social, the evolution of sex,[3] the evolution of specialization and many more.
See also
Other references
- Fox, C.W., Roff, D.A. and Fairbairn, D.J. 2001. Evolutionary Ecology: Concepts and Case Studies. Oxford University Press.
- Mayhew, P.J. 2006. Discovering Evolutionary Ecology: Bringing Together Ecology and Evolution. Oxford University Press.
- Pianka, E.R. 2000. Evolutionary Ecology, 6th ed. Benjamin Cummings.
References
- ↑ Eric R. Pianka. 2011. Evolutionary Ecology. Seventh Edition - eBook. Page 6. Accessed 7 June 2014.
- ↑ Eric R. Pianka. 2011. Evolutionary Ecology. Seventh Edition - eBook. Page 13. Accessed 7 June 2014.
- ↑ Lodé T. 2011. Sex is not a solution for reproduction: the libertine bubble theory. Bioessays 33:419-422
External links
- Evolutionary Ecology Research - a journal in the field.
- Methods in Ecology and Evolution - a journal in the field.
- Ecology and Evolution - Wiley
- Evolutionary Ecology - Springer
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