Life History

Recent Papers

NATURAL HISTORY NOTE

Experimental Amelioration of Harsh Weather Speeds Growth and Development in a Tropical Montane Songbird

Adam E. Mitchell, Jordan Boersma, Anthonio Anthony, Kanehiro Kitayama, and Thomas E. Martin

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Oct-Mitchell.html

A Stochastic Model for Predicting Age and Mass at Maturity of Insects

Geoffrey Legault and Joel G. Kingsolver

Blurb: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Aug-Legault.html

Species Differences in Phenology Shape Coexistence

Christopher Blackford, Rachel M. Germain, and Benjamin Gilbert

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/July-Blackford.html

Parental Age Effects and the Evolution of Senescence

Patrick M. Barks and Robert A. Laird

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/May-Barks.html

Age-Related Brood Parasitism and Egg Rejection in Magpie Hosts

Juan Gabriel Martínez, Mercedes Molina-Morales, Marta Precioso, and Jesús Miguel Avilés

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/May-Martinez.html

Life-History Plasticity and Water-Use Trade-Offs Associated with Drought Resistance in a Clade of California Jewelflowers

Ian S. Pearse, Jessica M. Aguilar, and Sharon Y. Strauss

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Apr-Pearse.html

SYNTHESIS

Context Dependence of Local Adaptation to Abiotic and Biotic Environments: A Quantitative and Qualitative Synthesis

Ryan D. Briscoe Runquist, Amanda J. Gorton, Jeremy B. Yoder, Nicholas J. Deacon, Jake J. Grossman, Shan Kothari, Marta P. Lyons, Seema N. Sheth, Peter Tiffin, and David A. Moeller

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Mar-Briscoe-Runquist.html

NOTE

The Effects of Body Mass on Immune Cell Concentrations of Mammals

Cynthia J. Downs, Ned A. Dochtermann, Ray Ball, Kirk C. Klasing, and Lynn B. Martin

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Jan-Downs.html

Fecundity-Longevity Trade-Off, Vertical Transmission, and Evolution of Virulence in Sterilizing Pathogens

Eva Janoušková and Luděk Berec

FREE

Comparing Life Histories across Taxonomic Groups in Multiple Dimensions: How Mammal-Like Are Insects?

Adam T. Bakewell, Katie E. Davis, Robert P. Freckleton, Nick J. B. Isaac, and Peter J. Mayhew

Eco-Evolutionary Feedbacks Predict the Time Course of Rapid Life-History Evolution

David N. Reznick, Ronald D. Bassar, Corey A. Handelsman, Cameron K. Ghalambor, Jeff Arendt, Tim Coulson, Tomos Potter, Emily W. Ruell, Julián Torres-Dowdall, Paul Bentzen, and Joseph Travis

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Nov-Reznick.html

A Spatial Perspective on the Phenological Distribution of the Spring Woodland Caterpillar Peak

Jack D. Shutt, Malcolm D. Burgess, and Albert B. Phillimore

Blurb: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Nov-Shutt.html

Special Feature on Maladaptation

Seed Masting Causes Fluctuations in Optimum Litter Size and Lag Load in a Seed Predator

Andrew G. McAdam, Stan Boutin, Ben Dantzer, and Jeffrey E. Lane

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AugMcAdam.html

Plastic Senescence in the Honey Bee and the Disposable Soma Theory

Jack da Silva

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Sep-da-Silva.html

Note, Open Access

Generation Time Measures the Trade-Off between Survival and Reproduction in a Life Cycle

Stefano Giaimo and Arne Traulsen

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AugGiaimo.html

Note

The Equivocal Mean Age of Parents in a Cohort

François Bienvenu

Blurb: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AugBienvenu.html

Environmental Veto Synchronizes Mast Seeding in Four Contrasting Tree Species

Michał Bogdziewicz, Magdalena Żywiec, Josep M. Espelta, Marcos Fernández-Martinez, Rafael Calama, Mateusz Ledwoń, Eliot McIntire, and Elizabeth E. Crone

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AugBogdziewicz.html

Lifetime Fitness, Sex-Specific Life History, and the Maintenance of a Polyphenism

Alycia C. R. Lackey, Michael P. Moore, Jacqueline Doyle, Nicole Gerlanc, Ashley Hagan, Morgan Geile, Chris Eden, and Howard H. Whiteman

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AugLackey.html

Open Access, Special Feature on Maladaptation

Maladaptive Shifts in Life History in a Changing Environment

Olivier Cotto, Linnea Sandell, Luis-Miguel Chevin, and Ophélie Ronce

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AugCotto.html

Synthesis

Dormancy in Metacommunities

Nathan I. Wisnoski, Mathew A. Leibold, and Jay T. Lennon

Blurb: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AugWisnoski.html

Higher Nest Predation Favors Rapid Fledging at the Cost of Plumage Quality in Nestling Birds

Lea M. Callan, Frank A. La Sorte, Thomas E. Martin, and Vanya G. Rohwer

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/MayCallan.html

Condition-Dependent Begging Elicits Increased Parental Investment in a Wild Bird Population

E. Keith Bowers, Jonathan B. Jenkins, Alexander J. Mueller, Kelly D. Miller, Charles F. Thompson, and Scott K. Sakaluk

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/MayBowers.html

Two-Year Bee, or Not Two-Year Bee? How Voltinism Is Affected by Temperature and Season Length in a High-Elevation Solitary Bee

Jessica R. K. Forrest, Regan Cross, and Paul J. CaraDonna

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AprForrest.html

Age-Specific Offspring Mortality Economically Tracks Food Abundance in a Piscivorous Seabird

Oscar Vedder, He Zhang, Andreas Dänhardt, and Sandra Bouwhuis

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AprVedder.html

Note (an F1000 recommendation as Exceptional)

Shifting Vital Rate Correlations Alter Predicted Population Responses to Increasingly Variable Environments

David T. Iles, Robert F. Rockwell, and David N. Koons

Queen Longevity and Fecundity Affect Conflict with Workers over Resource Inheritance in a Social Insect

Edward J. Almond, Timothy J. Huggins, Liam P. Crowther, Joel D. Parker, and Andrew F. G. Bourke

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/FebAlmond.html

Niches

Recent Papers 

Tolerance of novel toxins through generalized mechanisms: simulating gradual host shifts of butterflies

Kristin L Sikkink, Reilly Hostager, Megan E Kobiela, Nathan Fremling, Katherine Johnston, Amod Zambre, and Emilie C. Snell-Rood

Blog and abstract: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Mar-Sikkink.html

Synthesis

Context dependence of local adaptation to abiotic and biotic environments: a quantitative and qualitative synthesis

Ryan Briscoe Runquist, Amanda J Gorton, Jeremy B Yoder, Nicholas J Deacon, Jake J Grossman, Shan Kothari, Marta P Lyons, Seema N. Sheth, Peter Tiffin, and David A. Moeller

Blog and abstract: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Mar-Briscoe-Runquist.html

Synthesis

Local adaptation to biotic interactions: a meta-analysis across latitudes

Anna Hargreaves, Rachel M Germain, Megan Bontrager, Joshua Persi, and Amy L Angert

Blog and abstract: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Mar-Hargreaves.html

The Evolution of Immigration Strategies Facilitates Niche Expansion by Divergent Adaptation in a Structured Metapopulation Model

Éva Kisdi, Helene C. Weigang, and Mats Gyllenberg

Blog and abstract: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Jan-Kisdi.html

Free Access

Niche Construction Affects the Variability and Strength of Natural Selection

Andrew D. Clark Dominik Deffner Kevin Laland John Odling-Smee and John Endler

Blurb and abstract: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Jan-Clark.html

Free Access

Patch Size as a Niche Dimension: Aquatic Insects Behaviorally Partition Enemy-Free Space across Gradients of Patch Size

William J. Resetarits Jr., Matthew R. Pintar, Jason R. Bohenek, and Tyler M. Breech

Blog and abstract: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Dec-Resetarits.html

A Grinnellian Niche Perspective on Species-Area Relationships

Jorge Soberón

Blurb and abstract: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Dec-Soberon.html

On the Consequences of the Interdependence of Stabilizing and Equalizing Mechanisms

Chuliang Song, György Barabás, and Serguei Saavedra

Blog and abstract: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Nov-Song.html

Note, Open Access

Omnivory in Bees: Elevated Trophic Positions among All Major Bee Families

Shawn A. Steffan, Prarthana S. Dharampal, Bryan N. Danforth, Hannah R. Gaines-Day, Yuko Takizawa, and Yoshito Chikaraishi

Blog and abstract: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Sep-Steffan.html

Pulsed Immigration Events Can Facilitate Adaptation to Harsh Sink Environments

James H. Peniston, Michael Barfield, and Robert D. Holt

Blog and abstract: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Sep-Peniston.html

Open Access

Ecological Release of the Anna’s Hummingbird during a Northern Range Expansion

C. J. Battey

Blog and abstract: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Sep-Battey.html

Grow Where You Thrive, or Where Only You Can Survive? An Analysis of Performance Curve Evolution in a Clade with Diverse Habitat Affinities

Silas B. Tittes, Joseph F. Walker, Lorena Torres-Martínez, and Nancy C. Emery

Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AprTittes.html

American Society of Naturalists Presidential Address

The Snail’s Charm

Kathleen Donohue

Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/FebDonohue.html

The Role of Pleiotropy in the Evolutionary Maintenance of Positive Niche Construction
Rebecca H. Chisholm, Brian D. Connelly, Benjamin Kerr, and Mark M. Tanaka
Abstract: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/JulyChisholm-A.html

Frequency Dependence and Ecological Drift Shape Coexistence of Species with Similar Niches
Erik I. Svensson, Miguel A. Gómez-Llano, Anais Rivas Torres, and Hanna M. Bensch
Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/JuneSvensson.html

Testing Range-Limit Hypotheses Using Range-Wide Habitat Suitability and Occupancy for the Scarlet Monkeyflower (Erythranthe cardinalis)
Amy L. Angert, Matthew Bayly, Seema N. Sheth, and John R. Paul
Abstract: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/MarAngert-A.html

Toward a Mechanistic Understanding of Thermal Niche Partitioning
Daniel J. Smith and Priyanga Amarasekare
Abstract: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/MarSmith-A.html

Life-History Traits Evolved Jointly with Climatic Niche and Disturbance Regime in the Genus Leucadendron (Proteaceae)
Jeanne Tonnabel, Frank M. Schurr, Florian Boucher, Wilfried Thuiller, Julien Renaud, Emmanuel J. P. Douzery, and Ophélie Ronce
Abstract: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/FebTonnabel-A.html

Toward a Periodic Table of Niches, or Exploring the Lizard Niche Hypervolume
Eric R. Pianka, Laurie J. Vitt, Nicolás Pelegrin, Daniel B. Fitzgerald, and Kirk O. Winemiller
Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/NovPianka.html

Microhabitat and Climatic Niche Change Explain Patterns of Diversification among Frog Families
Daniel S. Moen and John J. Wiens
Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/JulyMoen.html

Open Access
A Parent-Offspring Trade-Off Limits the Evolution of an Ontogenetic Niche Shift
Hanna ten Brink and André M. de Roos
Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/JulyTenBrink.html

Coevolution

Recent Papers

Macroevolutionary Origin and Adaptive Function of a Polymorphic Female Signal Involved in Sexual Conflict

Beatriz Willink, M. Catherine Duryea, and Erik I. Svensson

Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Nov-Willink.html

Coevolution Creates Complex Mosaics across Large Landscapes

Lucas D. Fernandes, Paula Lemos-Costa, Paulo R. Guimarães Jr., John N. Thompson, and Marcus A. M. de Aguiar

Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AugFernandes.html

Free Access

How Does the Evolution of Universal Ecological Traits Affect Population Size? Lessons from Simple Models

Peter A. Abrams

Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/JuneAbrams.html

Indirect Interactions Shape Selection in a Multispecies Food Web

Denon Start, Arthur E. Weis, and Benjamin Gilbert

Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/MarStart.html

Assortative Mating by an Obliquely Transmitted Local Cultural Trait Promotes Genetic Divergence: A Model

D. Justin Yeh

Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/JanYeh.html

Sexual Conflict and Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs): Coevolution of Sexually Antagonistic Host Traits with an STI

Alison M. Wardlaw and Aneil F. Agrawal

Gene-Culture Coinheritance of a Behavioral Trait

Elliot G. Aguilar and Erol Akçay

Coevolution Slows the Disassembly of Mutualistic Networks

Scott L. Nuismer, Bob Week, and Marcelo A. Aizen

Host Traits Drive Viral Life Histories across Phytoplankton Viruses

Kyle F. Edwards and Grieg F. Steward

Neutral Community Dynamics and the Evolution of Species Interactions

Marco Túlio P. Coelho and Thiago F. Rangel

Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AprCoelho.html

Open Access

Coevolution between Mutualists and Parasites in Symbiotic Communities May Lead to the Evolution of Lower Virulence

Paul G. Nelson and Georgiana May

Natural History Note

Hollow Internodes Permit a Neotropical Understory Plant to Shelter Multiple Mutualistic Ant Species, Obtaining Protection and Nutrient Provisioning (Myrmecotrophy)

Alain Dejean, Frédéric Petitclerc, Arthur Compin, Frédéric Azémar,1 Bruno Corbara, Jacques H. C. Delabie, and Céline Leroy

Note

Rethinking Conventional Wisdom: Are Locally Adapted Parasites Ahead in the Coevolutionary Race?

Scott L. Nuismer

Sanctions, Partner Recognition, and Variation in Mutualism

Jeremy B. Yoder and Peter Tiffin

Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/OctYoder.html

Open Access

The Role of the Environment in the Evolution of Tolerance and Resistance to a Pathogen

Michael Zeller and Jacob C. Koella