Anthropogenic environmental change is the most significant threat to biodiversity in the 21st century. Animal populations are experiencing rapid changes in their biotic and abiotic environment, which impose novel selection pressures on organisms and increase the risk of population extinction. There is thus a pressing need to understand what affects the capacity of populations to respond and adapt to environmental change. Because behavioral traits are very labile, they provide a means of rapidly responding to environmental change (Sih et al. 2011; Tuomainen and Candolin 2011).

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社论：性选择和环境变化：我们知道什么以及接下来会发生什么？


人为环境变化是21世纪生物多样性面临的最重大威胁。动物种群的生物和非生物环境正在经历快速变化，这给生物体带来了新的选择压力，并增加了种群灭绝的风险。因此，迫切需要了解是什么影响了人们应对和适应环境变化的能力。由于行为特征非常不稳定，因此它们提供了一种快速响应环境变化的方法（Sih 等人，2011 年；Tuomainen 和 Candolin，2011 年）。