Concepts

An evolutionary process in which a population evolves to become more suited to its local environment through natural selection, resulting in higher fitness in the home environment compared to individu...

A process by which adaptive evolutionary change occurs sufficiently rapidly to counteract a decline in population size under initially unfavorable conditions

Framework predicting that larger islands have more species at equilibrium since extinction rates decline and colonization rates increase with increased area, and islands at greater distance from mainl...

Limitations on evolutionary divergence imposed by genetic architecture and patterns of genetic covariation