Environmental Pressure

Definition

Environmental pressure refers to the influence exerted by the environment on organisms, leading to changes in their behavior, distribution, or physiology. It often drives natural selection and evolution.

Related terms

Natural Selection:

This is the process where organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring.

Adaptation:

These are changes in physical structure, function or behavior that allow an organism or species to survive and reproduce in a given environment.

Evolution:

This is a process that results in heritable changes in a population spread over many generations.