The Geographic mosaic of Coevolution

PABLO ASPRELLI; AGUSTINA NOVILLO; CECILIA LANZONE; JORGE VALDEZ

MASTOZOOLOGíA NEOTROPICAL

ZETA

Lugar: Mendoza; Año: 2007 vol. 14 p. 139 - 141

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In “The Geographic Mosaic of Coevolution,” Thompson argues that coevolution is one of the most important ecological and genetic processes that organize earth biodiversity.  One of the basic tenets of the book is that most of the evolution is coevolution, which is broadly defined as the process of reciprocal evolutionary change between interacting species driven by natural selection. The book emphasizes the idea that coevolution occurs in a discontinuous and heterogeneous environment. The evolutionary forces that act upon individuals are expected to vary in space and time, as a consequence of variation of abiotic characteristics and the interacting species present in local environments.