Loss and recovery of ecological diversity associated with evolutionary rescue in abruptly and gradually deteriorating environments

Populations may survive environmental deterioration by evolutionary adaptation.  However, such evolutionary rescue events may be associated with ecological costs, such as reduction in growth performance and loss of ecologically important genetic diversity.  Those negative ecological consequences may be mitigated by additional adaptive evolution.  Both the ecological costs and the opportunities for additional evolution are contingent on the severity of environmental deterioration.  Here we hypothesize that populations evolutionarily rescued from faster, relative to slow, environmental deterioration suffer more severe long-term fitness decline and diversity loss.  An experiment with the model adaptive radiation of bacterium Pseudomonas fluorescens exposed to abruptly or gradually increased antibiotic stress supported our hypothesis.  The effect of additional adaptive evolution in recovering population size and ecological diversity was far from perfect.  Cautions are therefore needed in pr..., , , # Reference Information

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* Authors: Dong-Hao Zhou and Quan-Guo Zhang
* Date created: 2023-11-18

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* Creators: Dong-Hao Zhou and Quan-Guo Zhang
* Date of Issue: 2023-11-18
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## Contact Information

* Name: Dong-Hao Zhou
* Affiliations: State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology and MOE Key Laboratory for Biodiversity Science and Ecological Engineering, College of Life Sciences, Bei...