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Population dynamics and evolutionary processes: the manifold roles of habitat selection

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Any character that has a substantial effect on a species' distribution and abundance can exert a variety of indirect effects on evolutionary processes. It is suggested that an organism's capacity for habitat selection is just such a character. Habitat selection can constrain the selective environment experienced by a population. Habitat selection can also indirectly influence the relative importance of natural selection, drift, and gene flow, through its effect on population size and growth rate. In many circumstances (but not all), habitat selection increases population size and growth rate, and thereby makes selection in a local environment more effective than drift and gene flow.

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Holt, R.D. Population dynamics and evolutionary processes: the manifold roles of habitat selection. Evol Ecol 1, 331–347 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02071557

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