maladaptation in English
noun
[mæl'ædəp'teɪʃn]
maladjustment, poor adaptatio
Use "maladaptation" in a sentence
1. Regardless of the number of zones created, a regional maladaptation index was consistently smaller when zones were devised with area-based cluster (ABC) analysis than when zones were created by dividing the region into bands of equal elevational or adaptive-value widths.
2. Adaptational lag; climate change; ecological genomics; local adaptation; temperature; Maladaptation due to rapidly changing climate conditions is one of the greatest modern threats to biodiversity ().Underlying many predictions of the severity of climate change on natural systems is the assumption that populations are locally adapted or well-suited to their current climate conditions.