Competition

Recent Papers

Shifts in Reproductive Investment in Response to Competitors Lower Male Reproductive Success

Foteini Spagopoulou, Regina Vega-Trejo, Megan L. Head, and Michael D. Jennions

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

Effect of Stressors on the Carrying Capacity of Spatially Distributed Metapopulations

Bo Zhang, Donald L. DeAngelis, Wei-Ming Ni, Yuanshi Wang, Lu Zhai, Alex Kula, Shuang Xu, and J. David Van Dyken

Species Differences in Phenology Shape Coexistence

Christopher Blackford, Rachel M. Germain, and Benjamin Gilbert

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

Free Access

Beyond Pairwise Interactions: Multispecies Character Displacement in Mexican Freshwater Fish Communities

Andrea J. Roth-Monzón, Mark C. Belk, J. Jaime Zúñiga-Vega, and Jerald B. Johnson

Blurb: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/June-Roth-Monzon.html

Increased Levels of Perceived Competition Decrease Juvenile Kin-Shoaling Preferences in a Cichlid Fish

Timo Thünken, Saskia Hesse, and Denis Meuthen

Belowground Competition Can Influence the Evolution of Root Traits

Sara M. Colom and Regina S. Baucom

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

Stochastic Dynamics of Three Competing Clones: Conditions and Times for Invasion, Coexistence, and Fixation

Sylvain Billiard and Charline Smadi

Blurb: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Mar-Billiard.html

Nonlinear Effects of Intraspecific Competition Alter Landscape-Wide Scaling Up of Ecosystem Function

Chelsea J. Little, Emanuel A. Fronhofer, and Florian Altermatt

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

How Does Joint Evolution of Consumer Traits Affect Resource Specialization?

Paula Vasconcelos and Claus Rueffler

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/VP-Vasconcelos.html

Evolutionary Rescue from a Wave of Biological Invasion

J. David Van Dyken

Scale Both Confounds and Informs Characterization of Species Coexistence in Empirical Systems

Adam Clark, Helmut Hillebrand, and W. Stanley Harpole

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

Combined Effects of Natural Enemies and Competition for Resources on a Forest Defoliator: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis

Molly E. Gallagher and Greg Dwyer

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Dec-Gallagher.html

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

Nicole L. Kinlock

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

On the Consequences of the Interdependence of Stabilizing and Equalizing Mechanisms

Chuliang Song, György Barabás, and Serguei Saavedra

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

Early Sibling Conflict May Ultimately Benefit the Family

Alyssa Laney Smith, Daniel Z. Atwater, and Ragan M. Callaway

Blurb: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Oct-Smith.html

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A General Explanation for the Persistence of Reproductive Interference

Jonathan P. Drury, Christopher N. Anderson, Maria B. Cabezas Castillo, Jewel Fisher, Shawn McEachin, and Gregory F. Grether

Blurb: https://amnat.org/an/newpapers/AugDrury.html

Assessing Behavioral Associations in a Hybrid Zone through Social Network Analysis: Complex Assortative Behaviors Structure Associations in a Hybrid Quail Population

David M. Zonana, Jennifer M. Gee, Eli S. Bridge, Michael D. Breed, and Daniel F. Doak

Blurb: https://amnat.org/an/newpapers/JuneZonana.html

Effects of Predator Avoidance Behavior on the Coexistence of Competing Prey

Pacifica Sommers and Peter Chesson

Blurb: https://amnat.org/an/newpapers/MaySommers.html

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

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

Blurb: https://amnat.org/an/newpapers/AprVedder.html

Limiting Similarity? The Ecological Dynamics of Natural Selection among Resources and Consumers Caused by Both Apparent and Resource Competition

Mark A. McPeek

Competitive Exclusion and Evolution: Convergence Almost Never Produces Ecologically Equivalent Species: (A Comment on McPeek, “Limiting Similarity? The Ecological Dynamics of Natural Selection among Resources and Consumers Caused by Both Apparent and Resource Competition”)

Liz Pásztor, György Barabás, and Géza Meszéna

Open Access

Predator-Prey Models with Competition: The Emergence of Territoriality

Henri Berestycki and Alessandro Zilio

Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/MarBerestycki.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

Increased Temperature Disrupts the Biodiversity–Ecosystem Functioning Relationship

Elodie C. Parain, Rudolf P. Rohr, Sarah M. Gray, and Louis-Félix Bersier

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

Open Access

Delayed Chemical Defense: Timely Expulsion of Herbivores Can Reduce Competition with Neighboring Plants

Pia Backmann, Volker Grimm, Gottfried Jetschke, Yue Lin, Matthijs Vos, Ian T. Baldwin, and Nicole M. van Dam

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

Celebrating Am Nat 150, Open Access

Specifying the Harsh Conditions of Life: Resource Competition and Predation in the 1970s

Alita R. Burmeister and Richard E. Lenski