Climate change is increasing the frequency and severity of short-term heat shocks that threaten the persistence of natural populations.However,most work addressing the evolutionary consequences of anthropogenic enviro...Climate change is increasing the frequency and severity of short-term heat shocks that threaten the persistence of natural populations.However,most work addressing the evolutionary consequences of anthropogenic environmental change has focused on natural selection,with less attention paid to the impacts on sexual selection.The conditions under which sexual selection operates is a topic of debate,but a generally observed pattern is that the oper-ational sex ratio(OSR)of a population is key to determining both the extent of competition for fertilizations and the scope for mate choice(Weir et al.2011)展开更多
基金B.S.W.was funded by the“Adapting to the Challenges of a Changing Environment”(ACCE)Doctoral Training Partnershipwhich is itself funded by the Natural Environment Research Council(NERC)[NERC grant NE/P002692/1 to T.A.R.P.].
文摘Climate change is increasing the frequency and severity of short-term heat shocks that threaten the persistence of natural populations.However,most work addressing the evolutionary consequences of anthropogenic environmental change has focused on natural selection,with less attention paid to the impacts on sexual selection.The conditions under which sexual selection operates is a topic of debate,but a generally observed pattern is that the oper-ational sex ratio(OSR)of a population is key to determining both the extent of competition for fertilizations and the scope for mate choice(Weir et al.2011)
