Modeling and Theory

Recent Papers

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American Society of Naturalists Address

Models on the Runway: How Do We Make Replicas of the World?

Marlene Zuk and Mike Travisano

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VP Symposium on The role of theoretical studies in ecology and evolution

An effective mutualism? The role of theoretical studies in ecology and evolution
Maria R. Servedio
Summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/VP-Servedio.html

Memory in trait macroevolution
Emma E Goldberg and Jasmine Foo

Deconstructing evolutionary game theory: coevolution of social behaviors with their evolutionary setting
Erol Akçay

How does joint evolution of consumer traits affect resource specialization?
Paula Vasconcelos and Claus Rueffler
Summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/VP-Vasconcelos.html

Evolution of dispersal can rescue populations from expansion load
Stephan Peischl and Kimberly J. Gilbert

Sex differences in the recombination landscape
Jason M. Sardell and Mark Kirkpatrick

Free Access
When synchrony makes the best of both worlds even better: how well do we really understand facultative sex?
Hanna Kokko
Summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/VP-Kokko.html
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Theoretical Ecology
On the Consequences of the Interdependence of Stabilizing and Equalizing Mechanisms
Chuliang Song, György Barabás, and Serguei Saavedra
Summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Nov-Song.html

Plastic Senescence in the Honey Bee and the Disposable Soma Theory
Jack da Silva
Summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Sep-da-Silva.html

Neutral Theory
Beta Diversity Patterns Derived from Island Biogeography Theory
Muyang Lu, David Vasseur, and Walter Jetz
Summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Sep-Lu.html

Metabolic Theory of Ecology
A Residence Time Theory for Biodiversity
Kenneth J. Locey and Jay T. Lennon

Free Access
Ecological and Evolutionary Stabilities of Biotrophism, Necrotrophism, and Saprotrophism
Sayaki U. Suzuki and Akira Sasaki

Free Access, Evolutionary Theory
How Does the Evolution of Universal Ecological Traits Affect Population Size? Lessons from Simple Models
Peter A. Abrams

Metabolic Theory of Ecology
Predicting the Thermal and Allometric Dependencies of Disease Transmission via the Metabolic Theory of Ecology
Devin Kirk, Pepijn Luijckx, Andrijana Stanic, and Martin Krkošek
Summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/MayKirk.html

Decision Theory
Resolving the Measurement Uncertainty Paradox in Ecological Management
Milad Memarzadeh and Carl Boettiger
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Signal Detection Theory

Prey Responses to Exotic Predators: Effects of Old Risks and New Cues

Sean M. Ehlman, Pete C. Trimmer, and Andrew Sih

Open Access, Evolutionary Theory

Shortsighted Evolution Constrains the Efficacy of Long-Term Bet Hedging

Eric Libby and William C. Ratcliff

Game Theory

Predator-Prey Games in Multiple Habitats Reveal Mixed Strategies in Diel Vertical Migration

Jérôme Pinti and André W. Visser

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

Multiple Evolutionary Routes to Monogamy: Modeling the Coevolution of Mating Decisions and Parental Investment

Arne Jungwirth and Rufus A. Johnstone

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

Evolutionary Consequences of Sex-Specific Selection in Variable Environments: Four Simple Models Reveal Diverse Evolutionary Outcomes

Tim Connallon, Shefali Sharma, and Colin Olito

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

Open Access

Biophysical Modeling of Water Economy Can Explain Geographic Gradient of Body Size in Anurans

Sidney F. Gouveia, Rafael P. Bovo, Juan G. Rubalcaba, Fernando Rodrigues Da Silva, Natan M. Maciel, Denis V. Andrade, and Pablo Ariel Martinez

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

Space Use and Leadership Modify Dilution Effects on Optimal Vigilance under Food-Safety Trade-Offs

Rémi Patin, Daniel Fortin, Cédric Sueur, and Simon Chamaillé-Jammes

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

Metabolic Theory and the Temperature-Size Rule Explain the Temperature Dependence of Population Carrying Capacity
Joey R. Bernhardt, Jennifer M. Sunday, and Mary I. O’Connor
Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/DecBernhardt.html

The Energetic Cost of Reproduction and Its Effect on Optimal Life-History Strategies

Asta Audzijonyte and Shane A. Richards

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

Sex Allocation Theory for Facultatively Sexual Organisms Inhabiting Seasonal Environments: The Importance of Bet Hedging
Nina Gerber, Isobel Booksmythe, and Hanna Kokko

Open Access

A Genomic Imprinting Model of Termite Caste Determination: Not Genetic but Epigenetic Inheritance Influences Offspring Caste Fate

Kenji Matsuura, Nobuaki Mizumoto, Kazuya Kobayashi, Tomonari Nozaki, Tadahide Fujita, Toshihisa Yashiro, Taro Fuchikawa, Yuki Mitaka, and Edward L. Vargo

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

Open Access

Model Adequacy and Microevolutionary Explanations for Stasis in the Fossil Record

Kjetil Lysne Voje, Jostein Starrfelt, and Lee Hsiang Liow

Inferring Causalities in Landscape Genetics: An Extension of Wright’s Causal Modeling to Distance Matrices

Lisa Fourtune, Jérôme G. Prunier, Ivan Paz-Vinas, Géraldine Loot, Charlotte Veyssière, and Simon Blanchet