Erik I. Svensson and Ryan Calsbeek: Preface
PART I: Historical Background and Philosophical Perspectives
1: Michael R. Dietrich and Robert A. Skipper, Jr.: A Shifting
Terrain: A Brief History of the Adaptive Landscape
2: Robert A. Skipper, Jr. and Michael R. Dietrich: Sewall Wright's
Adaptive Landscape: Philosophical Reflections on Heuristic
Value
3: Massimo Pigliucci: Landscapes, Surfaces and Morphospaces: What
are they good for?
PART II: Controversies: Fisher's Fundamental Theory Versus Sewall
Wright's Shifting Balance Theory
4: Steven A. Frank: Wright's Adaptive Landscape versus Fisher's
Fundamental Theorem
5: Michael J. Wade: Wright's Adaptive Landscape: Testing the
Predictions of his Shifting Balance Theory
6: Charles J. Goodnight: Wright's Shifting Balance Theory and
Factors Affecting the Probability of Peak Shifts
PART III: Applications: Microevolutionary Dynamics, Quantitative
Genetics, and Population Biology
7: Ryan Calsbeek, Thomas P. Gosden, Shawn R. Kuchta, and Erik I.
Svensson: Fluctuating Selection and Dynamic Adaptive Landscapes
8: Adam G. Jones, Nicholas L. Ratterman, and Kimberly A. Paczolt:
The Adaptive Landscape in Sexual Selection Research
9: Stephen F. Chenoweth, John Hunt, and Howard D. Rundle: Analysing
and Comparing the Geometry of Individual Fitness Surfaces
10: Christophe Pélabon, W. Scott Armbruster, Thomas F. Hansen, Geir
Bolstad, and Rocío Pérez-Barrales: Adaptive Accuracy and Adaptive
Landscapes
11: Tim F. Cooper: Empirical Insights into Adaptive Landscapes from
Bacterial Experimental Evolution
12: Andrew P. Hendry, Virginie Millien, Andrew Gonzalez, and Hans
C. E. Larsson: How Humans Influence Evolution on Adaptive
Landscapes
PART IV: Speciation and Macroevolution
13: Thomas F. Hansen: Adaptive Landscapes and Macroevolutionary
Dynamics
14: Michael Doebeli: Adaptive Dynamics: a Framework for Modelling
the Long-Term Evolutionary Dynamics of Quantitative Traits
15: Michael A. Bell: Adaptive Landscapes, Evolution, and the Fossil
Record
PART V: Development, Form, and Function
16: Olof Leimar, Birgitta S. Tullberg, and James Mallet: Mimicry,
Saltational Evolution, and the Crossing of Fitness Valleys
17: Andreas Wagner: High-dimensional Adaptive Landscapes Facilitate
Evolutionary Innovation
18: Sean H. Rice: Phenotype Landscapes, Adaptive Landscapes, and
the Evolution of Development
PART VI: Concluding Remarks
19: Erik I. Svensson and Ryan Calsbeek: The Past, the Present, and
the Future of the Adaptive Landscape
Index
Erik Svensson is professor in evolutionary ecology at Lund
University Sweden. He obtained his PhD in 1997, and has performed
research in Sweden, California, Greece, South Africa, and Japan on
several different organismal groups, including birds, reptiles,
crustaceans, and insects. He is a former Fulbright Scholar and
postdoctoral researcher at University of California, Santa Cruz and
a visiting Fellow at Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study in
South Africa.
Svensson's research interests are evolutionary processes in natural
populations, including interactions between natural and sexual
selection, life-history biology, genetic polymorphisms and
frequency-dependent selection, mate preference evolution, sexual
isolation, and speciation processes. He has published about 70
articles in international journals, and he currently serves in the
international boards of American Naturalist and Evolution. He is
currently member of the governing council for the European Society
for Evolutionary Biology. Ryan Calsbeek is a former post-doctoral
fellow at the Center for Tropical Research at University of
California, Los Angeles, a visiting scholar at
the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, and a visiting
professor at Piere and Marie Curie Universite in Paris, France.
Calsbeek's research focuses on the ecological and evolutionary
factors that
influence the strength and form of natural selection in natural
populations of reptiles and amphibians, including predation,
competition, and conflicts between the sexes. He is currently an
Associate Professor of Biological Sciences at Dartmouth College in
the U.S.A. Clasbeek has published 50 articles in international
peer-reviewed journals and currently serves as an Associate Editor
on the journal Functional Ecology.
`The editors have done an excellent job of bringing together many
outstanding contributors and diverse content. This makes clear how
the landscape has been important to the development of a wide array
of subdisciplines. As such, this is an excellent starting point for
graduate students or a source book for professionals.'
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