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Selection at the level of the community: the importance of spatial structure

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posted on 2023-05-16, 13:54 authored by Craig JohnsonCraig Johnson, Boerlijst, MC
To ask whether natural selection occurs at the level of the community is to consider whether communities represent a major transition in evolution - can particular community configurations evolve and maintain their integrity in the face of disruption arising from the self-interest of component individuals? This requires heritable variation among subcommunities in a landscape, and that alternative subcommunities maintain a degree of individuality in both time and space. Recently developed models show that spatial self-structuring in multispecies systems can meet both criteria and provide a rich substrate for community-level selection and a major transition in evolution.

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Publication title

Trends in Ecology & Evolution

Volume

17

Pagination

83-90

ISSN

0169-5347

Department/School

Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies

Publisher

Elsevier Science London

Place of publication

UK

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  • Restricted

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Expanding knowledge in the environmental sciences

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