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evolutionary rescue

Scope: evolution
Papers: 20 | Mentions: 20

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Definition

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

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evolutionary rescuegenetic rescuepopulation persistencequasi-extinctionpopulation growth rateextinction probabilityPVApersistencelocal persistencerecovery
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recolonizationviability

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