TY - JOUR
T1 - Evolutionary principles and their practical application
AU - Hendry, Andrew P.
AU - Kinnison, Michael T.
AU - Heino, Mikko
AU - Day, Troy
AU - Smith, Thomas B.
AU - Fitt, Gary
AU - Bergstrom, Carl T.
AU - Oakeshott, John
AU - Jørgensen, Peter S.
AU - Zalucki, Myron P.
AU - Gilchrist, George
AU - Southerton, Simon
AU - Sih, Andrew
AU - Strauss, Sharon
AU - Denison, Robert F.
AU - Carroll, Scott P.
PY - 2011/3
Y1 - 2011/3
N2 - Evolutionary principles are now routinely incorporated into medicine and agriculture. Examples include the design of treatments that slow the evolution of resistance by weeds, pests, and pathogens, and the design of breeding programs that maximize crop yield or quality. Evolutionary principles are also increasingly incorporated into conservation biology, natural resource management, and environmental science. Examples include the protection of small and isolated populations from inbreeding depression, the identification of key traits involved in adaptation to climate change, the design of harvesting regimes that minimize unwanted life-history evolution, and the setting of conservation priorities based on populations, species, or communities that harbor the greatest evolutionary diversity and potential. The adoption of evolutionary principles has proceeded somewhat independently in these different fields, even though the underlying fundamental concepts are the same. We explore these fundamental concepts under four main themes: variation, selection, connectivity, and eco-evolutionary dynamics. Within each theme, we present several key evolutionary principles and illustrate their use in addressing applied problems. We hope that the resulting primer of evolutionary concepts and their practical utility helps to advance a unified multidisciplinary field of applied evolutionary biology.
AB - Evolutionary principles are now routinely incorporated into medicine and agriculture. Examples include the design of treatments that slow the evolution of resistance by weeds, pests, and pathogens, and the design of breeding programs that maximize crop yield or quality. Evolutionary principles are also increasingly incorporated into conservation biology, natural resource management, and environmental science. Examples include the protection of small and isolated populations from inbreeding depression, the identification of key traits involved in adaptation to climate change, the design of harvesting regimes that minimize unwanted life-history evolution, and the setting of conservation priorities based on populations, species, or communities that harbor the greatest evolutionary diversity and potential. The adoption of evolutionary principles has proceeded somewhat independently in these different fields, even though the underlying fundamental concepts are the same. We explore these fundamental concepts under four main themes: variation, selection, connectivity, and eco-evolutionary dynamics. Within each theme, we present several key evolutionary principles and illustrate their use in addressing applied problems. We hope that the resulting primer of evolutionary concepts and their practical utility helps to advance a unified multidisciplinary field of applied evolutionary biology.
KW - Adaptation
KW - Agriculture
KW - Climate change
KW - Conservation biology
KW - Contemporary evolution
KW - Evolutionary medicine
KW - Fisheries management
KW - Forest management
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1752-4571.2010.00165.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1752-4571.2010.00165.x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79951654290
SN - 1752-4563
VL - 4
SP - 159
EP - 183
JO - Evolutionary Applications
JF - Evolutionary Applications
IS - 2
ER -