Communities

Recent Papers

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Community assembly and climate mismatch in Late-Quaternary eastern North American pollen assemblages

Clarke Knight, Jessica L. Blois, Benjamin Blonder, Marc Macias-Fauria, Alejandro Ordonez, and Jens-Christian Svenning

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Feb-Knight.html

A Meta-analysis of Plant Interaction Networks Reveals Competitive Hierarchies as well as Facilitation and Intransitivity

Nicole L. Kinlock

Summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Nov-Kinlock.html

Variability in Dispersal Syndromes Is a Key Driver of Metapopulation Dynamics in Experimental Microcosms

Staffan Jacob, Alexis S. Chaine, Michèle Huet, Jean Clobert, and Delphine Legrand

Summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Nov-Jacob.html

Can Community Structure Causally Determine Dynamics of Constituent Species? A Test Using a Host-Parasite Community

Ryan E. Langendorf and Daniel F. Doak

Summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Sep-Langendorf.html

Individual and Population Differences Shape Species Interactions and Natural Selection

Denon Start

Synthesis

Dormancy in Metacommunities

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

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

Free Access

Ecological and Evolutionary Stabilities of Biotrophism, Necrotrophism, and Saprotrophism

Sayaki U. Suzuki and Akira Sasaki

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

Heterogeneous Matrix Habitat Drives Species Occurrences in Complex, Fragmented Landscapes

Jedediah F. Brodie and William D. Newmark

Larger Area Facilitates Richness-Function Effects in Experimental Microcosms

John P. DeLong and Jean P. Gibert

Summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/MayDeLongGibert.html

Free Access

Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics in Metacommunities: Ecological Inheritance, Helping within Species, and Harming between Species

Charles Mullon and Laurent Lehmann

Synthesis

Nighttime Ecology: The “Nocturnal Problem” Revisited

Kevin J. Gaston

Rapid Divergence of Predator Functional Traits Affects Prey Composition in Aquatic Communities

Dominik W. Schmid, Matthew D. McGee, Rebecca J. Best, Ole Seehausen, and Blake Matthews

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

Open Access

Priority Effects and Nonhierarchical Competition Shape Species Composition in a Complex Grassland Community

Lawrence H. Uricchio, S. Caroline Daws, Erin R. Spear, and Erin A. Mordecai

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

Within-Host Priority Effects Systematically Alter Pathogen Coexistence

Patrick A. Clay, Kailash Dhir, Volker H. W. Rudolf, and Meghan A. Duffy

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

Biogeographical Patterns of Species Richness and Abundance Distribution in Stream Diatoms Are Driven by Climate and Water Chemistry

Sophia I. Passy, Chad A. Larson, Aurélien Jamoneau, William Budnick, Jani Heino, Thibault Leboucher, Juliette Tison-Rosebery, and Janne Soininen

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

Ontogeny and Consistent Individual Differences Mediate Trophic Interactions

Denon Start

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

Assessing Feeding Preferences of a Consumer Guild: Partitioning Variation Among versus Within Species

O. Kennedy Rhoades, Rebecca J. Best, and John J. Stachowicz

Multivariate Climate Change Can Favor Large Herbivore Body Size in Food Webs
Lauren M. Smith-Ramesh, Adam E. Rosenblatt, and Oswald J. Schmitz
Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/MarSmthRmsh.html

Open Access
Adaptive Divergence in a Defense Symbiosis Driven from the Top Down
Jeremy J. Heath, Patrick Abbot, and John O. Stireman III
Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/JulyHeath.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

Eco-Evolutionary Buffering: Rapid Evolution Facilitates Regional Species Coexistence despite Local Priority Effects
Meike J. Wittmann and Tadashi Fukami
Abstract: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/JuneWittmann-A.html

Note
Tipping Points in Resource Abundance Drive Irreversible Changes in Community Structure
Seth D. Haney and Adam M. Siepielski
Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/MayHaney.html

Species Pool Functional Diversity Plays a Hidden Role in Generating β-Diversity
Christopher J. Patrick and Bryan L. Brown
Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/MayPatrick.html

Neutral Community Dynamics and the Evolution of Species Interactions
Marco Túlio P. Coelho and Thiago F. Rangel
Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/AprCoelho.html

Symposium
Partitioning the Effects of Eco-Evolutionary Feedbacks on Community Stability
Swati Patel, Michael H. Cortez, and Sebastian J. Schreiber
Abstract: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/MarPatel.html

Symposium
Evolution in a Community Context: Trait Responses to Multiple Species Interactions
Casey P. terHorst, Peter C. Zee, Katy D. Heath, Thomas E. Miller, Abigail I. Pastore, Swati Patel, Sebastian J. Schreiber, Michael J. Wade, and Matthew R. Walsh
Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/Mar-terHorst.html

Patterns of Local Community Composition Are Linked to Large-Scale Diversification and Dispersal of Clades
John J. Wiens
Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/FebWiens.html

American Society of Naturalists Address
The Ecological Dynamics of Natural Selection: Traits and the Coevolution of Community Structure
Mark A. McPeek
Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/MayMcPeek.html

Historical Comment

Revisiting Paine’s 1966 Sea Star Removal Experiment, the Most-Cited Empirical Article in the American Naturalist

Kevin D. Lafferty and Thomas H. Suchanek

In Memoriam, Open Access: 

Robert Treat Paine III (1933–2016), An Outsized American Naturalist

Brian R. Silliman, Peter Kareiva, and Catherine A. Pfister