Populations of natural and cultivated plant and animal populations will be affected by more extreme climate events such as drought and flooding in the future. We explore whether characterization of
Adaptive radiation is a widely recognized pattern of evolution wherein substantial phenotypic change accompanies rapid speciation. Adaptive radiation may be triggered by environmental opportunities re
The ability of animals to adapt to climate change is dependent on the extent of genetically based variation in key phenotypic traits and the nature of genetic associations between them. For aquatic or