November 13, 2019

Modeling and Theory

Recent Papers

Pinned--
American Society of Naturalists Address
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
Summaryhttps://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
Summaryhttps://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
Summaryhttps://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
Summaryhttps://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Nov-Song.html

Plastic Senescence in the Honey Bee and the Disposable Soma Theory
Jack da Silva
Summaryhttps://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
Summaryhttps://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
Summaryhttps://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
Sean M. Ehlman, Pete C. Trimmer, and Andrew Sih

Open Access, Evolutionary Theory


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

Arne Jungwirth and Rufus A. Johnstone

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



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

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


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

Open Access
Kjetil Lysne Voje, Jostein Starrfelt, and Lee Hsiang Liow

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

Trait Variation

Recent Papers

Emily M. McLean, Elizabeth A. Archie, and Susan C. Alberts


Bin-Yan Hsu, Irene Verhagen, Phillip Gienapp, Veerle M. Darras, Marcel E. Visser, and Suvi Ruuskanen

Eva M. A. Kok, Joseph B. Burant, Anne Dekinga, Petra Manche, Darren Saintonge, Theunis Piersma, and Kimberley J. Mathot






Gaurav Baruah, Christopher F. Clements, Frédéric Guillaume, and Arpat Ozgul



Peter A. Biro, Theodore Garland Jr., Christa Beckmann, Beata Ujvari, Frederic Thomas, and John R. Post


Juan A. Fargallo, Félix Martínez, Kazumasa Wakamatsu, David Serrano, and Guillermo Blanco


Greg M. Walter, J. David Aguirre, Mark W. Blows, and Daniel Ortiz-Barrientos

Communities

Recent Papers

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


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



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





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

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

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

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



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


In Memoriam, Open Access: 
Brian R. Silliman, Peter Kareiva, and Catherine A. Pfister

Reproduction

Recent Papers


Thomas Brandt Ryder, Roslyn Dakin, Ben J. Vernasco, Brian S. Evans, Brent M. Horton, and Ignacio T. Moore

Open Access
Lalasia Bialic-Murphy, Christopher D. Heckel, Robert M. McElderry, and Susan Kalisz

Between- and Within-Individual Variation of Maternal Thyroid Hormone Deposition in Wild Great Tits (Parus major)

Bin-Yan Hsu, Irene Verhagen, Phillip Gienapp, Veerle M. Darras, Marcel E. Visser, and Suvi Ruuskanen
Summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Oct-Hsu.html

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


Open Access, Natural History Note
Mohamed Abdelaziz, Mohammed Bakkali, José M. Gómez, Enrica Olivieri, and Francisco Perfectti


James L. L. Lichtenstein, Ambika Kamath, Sarah Bengston, Leticia Avilés, and Jonathan N. Pruitt

Note
Carolyn M. Bauer, Jessica L. Graham, Mikus Abolins-Abols, Britt J. Heidinger, Ellen D. Ketterson, and Timothy J. Greives

Pluck or Luck: Does Trait Variation or Chance Drive Variation in Lifetime Reproductive Success?
Robin E. Snyder and Stephen P. Ellner
Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AprSnyder.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

Mating Opportunity Increases with Synchrony of Flowering among Years More than Synchrony within Years in a Nonmasting Perennial
Amy Waananen, Gretel Kiefer, Jennifer L. Ison, and Stuart Wagenius
Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/SepWaananen.html

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

Adaptive Foraging of Pollinators Can Promote Pollination of a Rare Plant Species
Gita Benadi and Robert J. Gegear
Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AugBenadi.html

A Physiological Signature of the Cost of Reproduction Associated with Parental Care
Melinda A. Fowler and Tony D. Williams
Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/DecFowler.html

Multivariate Sexual Selection on Ejaculate Traits under Sperm Competition
Rowan A. Lymbery, W. Jason Kennington, and Jonathan P. Evans
Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/JulyLymbery.html

Collector Motion Affects Particle Capture in Physical Models and in Wind Pollination
Dori McCombe and Josef D. Ackerman
Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/JulyMcCombe.html

Natural History Miscellany Note
Dispensing Pollen Via Catapult: Explosive Pollen Release in Mountain Laurel (Kalmia latifolia)
Callin M. Switzer, Stacey A. Combes, and Robin Hopkins
Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/JuneSwitzer.html

Selfing Can Facilitate Transitions between Pollination Syndromes
Carolyn A. Wessinger and John K. Kelly
Abstract: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/MayWessinger-A.html

Open Access
The Consequences of Polyandry for Sibship Structures, Distributions of Relationships and Relatedness, and Potential for Inbreeding in a Wild Population
Ryan R. Germain, Peter Arcese, and Jane M. Reid
Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/MayGermain.html

The Behavior and Reproductive Physiology of a Solitary Progressive Provisioning Vespid Wasp: Evidence for a Solitary-Cycle Origin of Reproductive Castes
Hans C. Kelstrup, Klaus Hartfelder, Tiago Falcon Lopes, and Theresa C. Wossler

Offspring Size and Reproductive Allocation in Harvester Ants
Diane C. Wiernasz and Blaine J. Cole
Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/JanWiernasz.html

Synthesis
Mechanisms of Assortative Mating in Speciation with Gene Flow: Connecting Theory and Empirical Research
Michael Kopp, Maria R. Servedio, Tamra C. Mendelson, Rebecca J. Safran, Rafael L. Rodríguez, Mark E. Hauber, Elizabeth C. Scordato, Laurel B. Symes, Christopher N. Balakrishnan, David M. Zonana, and G. Sander van Doorn
Abstract: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/JanKopp-A.html

Open Access
Do Sperm Really Compete and Do Eggs Ever Have a Choice? Adult Distribution and Gamete Mixing Influence Sexual Selection, Sexual Conflict, and the Evolution of Gamete Recognition Proteins in the Sea
Don R. Levitan
Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/JanLevitan.html











Syntheses and Perspectives

The Synthesis and Perspectives section publishes re-evaluations designed to move fields of ecology, evolution, and behavior forward.

Dormancy in Metacommunities
Nathan I. Wisnoski, Mathew A. Leibold, and Jay T. Lennon
Summaryhttps://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AugWisnoski.html

Open Access
A Practical Guide to the Study of Distribution Limits
Yvonne Willi and Josh Van Buskirk
Summaryhttps://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/JuneWilli.html

Nighttime Ecology: The “Nocturnal Problem” Revisited
Kevin J. Gaston

Animal Coloration Patterns: Linking Spatial Vision to Quantitative Analysis
Mary Caswell Stoddard and Daniel Osorio

Toward Understanding the Repeated Occurrence of Associations between Melanin-Based Coloration and Multiple Phenotypes
Luis M. San-Jose and Alexandre Roulin

Fifty Years of Mountain Passes: A Perspective on Dan Janzen’s Classic Article
Kimberly S. Sheldon, Raymond B. Huey, Michael Kaspari, and Nathan J. Sanders

Open Access
Coupling, Reinforcement, and Speciation
Roger K. Butlin and Carole M. Smadja

Theoretical Approaches in Evolutionary Ecology: Environmental Feedback as a Unifying Perspective
Sébastien Lion
Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/JanLion.html

Mechanisms of Assortative Mating in Speciation with Gene Flow: Connecting Theory and Empirical Research
Michael Kopp, Maria R. Servedio, Tamra C. Mendelson, Rebecca J. Safran, Rafael L. Rodríguez, Mark E. Hauber, Elizabeth C. Scordato, Laurel B. Symes, Christopher N. Balakrishnan, David M. Zonana, and G. Sander van Doorn





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