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Reinhard Bürger
Researcher at University of Vienna
Publications - 102
Citations - 9764
Reinhard Bürger is an academic researcher from University of Vienna. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Stabilizing selection. The author has an hindex of 42, co-authored 97 publications receiving 8844 citations. Previous affiliations of Reinhard Bürger include Harvard University & University of Oregon.
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Why intraspecific trait variation matters in community ecology
Daniel I. Bolnick,Priyanga Amarasekare,Márcio S. Araújo,Reinhard Bürger,Jonathan M. Levine,Mark Novak,Volker H. W. Rudolf,Sebastian J. Schreiber,Mark C. Urban,David A. Vasseur +9 more
TL;DR: Six general mechanisms by which trait variation changes the outcome of ecological interactions are identified and synthesize recent theory and identify several direct effects of trait variation per se and indirect effects arising from the role of genetic variation in trait evolution.
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Mutation accumulation and the extinction of small populations
TL;DR: Application of empirical estimates of the properties of spontaneous deleterious mutations leads to the conclusion that populations with effective sizes smaller than 100 are highly vulnerable to extinction via a mutational meltdown on timescales of approximately 100 generations.
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The Mathematical Theory of Selection, Recombination, and Mutation
TL;DR: The emphasis here is on models that have a direct bearing on evolutionary quantitative genetics and applications concerning the maintenance of genetic variation in quantitative traits and their dynamics under selection are treated in detail.
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Evolution and extinction in a changing environment: a quantitative-genetic analysis.
Reinhard Bürger,Michael Lynch +1 more
TL;DR: It is found that maximum sustainable rates of evolution or, equivalently, critical rates of environmental change, may be considerably less than 10% of a phenotypic standard deviation per generation.
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The mutational meltdown in asexual populations
TL;DR: An overview of the theory of the mutational meltdown is given, showing how the process depends on the demographic properties of a population, the properties of mutations, and the relationship between fitness and number of mutations incurred.