Published: Dec. 10, 2022
Most species belong to ecological communities where their interactions give rise emergent community-level properties, such as diversity and productivity. Understanding predicting how these properties change over time has been a major goal in ecology, with important practical implications for sustainability human health. Less attention paid the fact that can also because member evolve. Yet, our ability predict long-term eco-evolutionary dynamics hinges on repeatably result of evolution. Here, we review studies evolution both natural experimental make case at least sometimes evolve repeatably. We discuss challenges faced investigations evolutionary repeatability. In particular, only handful enable us quantify argue quantifying repeatability community level is critical approaching what see three open questions field: (1) Is observed degree surprising? (2) How related traits species? (3) What factors affect repeatability? outline some theoretical empirical approaches addressing questions. Advances directions will not enrich basic understanding ecology but help dynamics.
Language: Английский