Adaptive Genetic Variation in the Wild (Hardcover)

This book, featuring a superb selection of papers from leading authors, summarises the state of current understanding about the extent of genetic variation within wild populations and the ways to monitor such variation. It proposes the idea that a fundamental objective of evolutionary ecology is necessary to predict organism, population, community and ecosystem response to environmental change. In fact, the overall theme of the papers centres around the expression of genetic variation and how it is shaped by the action of natural selection in the natural environment.