Ecology

Biology

Psychological resilience

Face (sociological concept)

Economics

Habitat destruction

Computer science

Environmental change

Habitat fragmentation

Environmental planning

Thermodynamics

Physics

Climate change

Psychology

Geography

Environmental resource management

Psychotherapist

Sociology

Artificial intelligence

Resilience (materials science)

Perspective (graphical)

Biodiversity

Social science

Evolutionary Applications

Evolution occurs rapidly and is an ongoing process in our environments. Evolutionary principles need to be built into conservation efforts, particularly given the stressful conditions organisms are increasingly likely to experience because of climate change and ongoing habitat fragmentation. The concept of evolutionary resilience is a way of emphasizing evolutionary processes in conservation and landscape planning. From an evolutionary perspective, landscapes need to allow in situ selection and capture high levels of genetic variation essential for responding to the direct and indirect effects of climate change. We summarize ideas that need to be considered in planning for evolutionary resilience and suggest how they might be incorporated into policy and management to ensure that resilience is maintained in the face of environmental degradation.

Building evolutionary resilience for conserving biodiversity under climate change