Sexual Selection

Recent Papers

Social games and genic selection drives mammalian mating system evolution and speciation

Barry Sinervo, Alexis S Chaine, and Donald Miles

Blurb and abstract: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Feb-Sinervo.html

Assortative Mating in Animals and Its Role for Speciation

Tim Janicke, Lucas Marie-Orleach, Thomas G. Aubier, Charles Perrier, and Edward H. Morrow

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

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

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

Interspecific Covariation in Courtship Displays, Iridescent Plumage, Solar Orientation, and Their Interactions in Hummingbirds

Richard K. Simpson and Kevin J. McGraw

Blog and abstract: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Oct-Simpson.html

Phenotypic Diversity Arises from Secondary Signal Loss in the Elaborate Visual Displays of Toucans and Barbets

Meredith C. Miles and Matthew J. Fuxjager

Blog and abstract: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AugMiles.html

Nineteen Years of Consistently Positive and Strong Female Mate Preferences despite Individual Variation

Michael J. Ryan, Karin L. Akre, Alexander T. Baugh, Ximena E. Bernal, Amanda M. Lea, Caitlin Leslie, Meghan B. Still, Dennis C. Wylie, and A. Stanley Rand

Blog and abstract: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AugRyan.html

Natural History Note

Mate Choice versus Mate Preference: Inferences about Color-Assortative Mating Differ between Field and Lab Assays of Poison Frog Behavior

Yusan Yang, Simone Blomenkamp, Matthew B. Dugas, Corinne L. Richards-Zawacki, and Heike Pröhl

Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AprYang-A.html

Rarity of Size-Assortative Mating in Animals: Assessing the Evidence with Anuran Amphibians

David M. Green

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

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

Natural History Note

Purring Crickets: The Evolution of a Novel Sexual Signal

Robin M. Tinghitella, E. Dale Broder, Gabrielle A. Gurule-Small, Claudia J. Hallagan, and Jacob D. Wilson

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

Open Access

A Probable Case of Incipient Speciation in Schizocosa Wolf Spiders Driven by Allochrony, Habitat Use, and Female Mate Choice

R. Tucker Gilman, Kasey Fowler-Finn, and Eileen A. Hebets

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

Multivariate Sexual Selection on Ejaculate Traits under Sperm Competition

Rowan A. Lymbery, W. Jason Kennington, and Jonathan P. Evans

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

Adaptive Radiation

Recent Paper

Head Shape Modulates Diversification of a Classic Cichlid Pharyngeal Jaw Innovation

Edward D. Burress, Milton Tan, and Peter C. Wainwright

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

Natural History Note

Playing out Liem’s Paradox: Opportunistic Piscivory across Lake Tanganyikan Cichlids

Jimena Golcher-Benavides and Catherine E. Wagner

Blog and abstract: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Aug-Golcher-Benavides.html

Does Population Structure Predict the Rate of Speciation? A Comparative Test across Australia’s Most Diverse Vertebrate Radiation

Sonal Singhal, Huateng Huang, Maggie R. Grundler, María R. Marchán-Rivadeneira, Iris Holmes, Pascal O. Title, Stephen C. Donnellan, and Daniel L. Rabosky

The Role of Geography in Adaptive Radiation

John J. Schenk and Scott J. Steppan

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

Comparative Evolution of an Archetypal Adaptive Radiation: Innovation and Opportunity in Anolis Lizards

Steven Poe, Adrián Nieto-Montes de Oca, Omar Torres-Carvajal, Kevin de Queiroz, Julián A. Velasco, Brad Truett, Levi N. Gray, Mason J. Ryan, Gunther Köhler, Fernando Ayala-Varela, and Ian Latella

Evolution of Genetic Variance during Adaptive Radiation

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

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

Specialization to Extremely Low-Nutrient Soils Limits the Nutritional Adaptability of Plant Lineages

G. Anthony Verboom, William D. Stock, and Michael D. Cramer

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

Behavioral Evolution

Recent Papers

Open Access

Niche Construction Affects the Variability and Strength of Natural Selection

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

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

Open Access

The Evolutionary Origin of Associative Learning

Anselmo C. Pontes, Robert B. Mobley, Charles Ofria, Christoph Adami, and Fred C. Dyer

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

The Evolution of Indiscriminate Altruism in a Cooperatively Breeding Mammal

Chris Duncan, David Gaynor, Tim Clutton-Brock, and Mark Dyble

Blog and abstract: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/JuneDuncan.html

Gene-Culture Coinheritance of a Behavioral Trait

Elliot G. Aguilar and Erol Akçay

Should I Change or Should I Go? Phenotypic Plasticity and Matching Habitat Choice in the Adaptation to Environmental Heterogeneity

Pim Edelaar, Roger Jovani, and Ivan Gomez-Mestre

Lay summary: http://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/OctEdelaar.html

Synthesis

Comparative Analyses of Phenotypic Trait Covariation within and among Populations

Kathryn S. Peiman and Beren W. Robinson

Lay summary: http://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/OctPeiman.html

Genetic Correlations among Developmental and Contextual Behavioral Plasticity in Drosophila melanogaster

Julia B. Saltz, Seana Lymer, Jessica Gabrielian, and Sergey V. Nuzhdin

Lay summary: http://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/JulySaltz.html

Fitness Consequences of Boldness in Juvenile and Adult Largemouth Bass

Nicholas G. Ballew, Gary G. Mittelbach, and Kim T. Scribner

Lay summary: http://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AprBallew.html

Mutualism

Recent Papers

Disturbances can promote and hinder coexistence of competitors in on-going partner choice mutualisms

Benedicte Bachelot and Charlotte T. Lee

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

Blog and abstract: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AugFernandes.html

Natural History Note, Open Access

Bimodal Pollination Systems in Andean Melastomataceae Involving Birds, Bats, and Rodents

Agnes S. Dellinger, Lisa M. Scheer, Silvia Artuso, Diana Fernández-Fernández, Francisco Sornoza, Darin S. Penneys, Raimund Tenhaken, Stefan Dötterl, and Jürg Schönenberger

Blog and abstract: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/JulyDellinger.html

Open Access

Mutualists Stabilize the Coexistence of Congeneric Legumes

Andrew Siefert, Kenneth W. Zillig, Maren L. Friesen, and Sharon Y. Strauss

Natural History Note

Atypical Flowers Can Be as Profitable as Typical Hummingbird Flowers

Nickolas M. Waser, Paul J. CaraDonna, and Mary V. Price

Blog and abstract: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/NovWaser.html

Open Access

Coevolution Slows the Disassembly of Mutualistic Networks

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

High Gut Microbiota Diversity Provides Lower Resistance against Infection by an Intestinal Parasite in Bumblebees

Kathrin Näpflin and Paul Schmid-Hempel

Adaptive Foraging of Pollinators Can Promote Pollination of a Rare Plant Species

Gita Benadi and Robert J. Gegear

Blog and abstract: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AugBenadi.html

Symposium
Shared Genes but Not Shared Genetic Variation: Legume Colonization by Two Belowground Symbionts 
Julia N. Ossler and Katy D. Heath
Blog and abstract: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/MarOssler.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

Sanctions, Partner Recognition, and Variation in Mutualism
Jeremy B. Yoder and Peter Tiffin
Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/OctYoder.html

Countdown to 150, Open Access

From Lichens to the Law: Cooperation as a Theme in the Diverse Career of Roscoe Pound

Megan E. Frederickson and Judith L. Bronstein

Presidential Award Winner:
Evolutionary Assembly of Communities in Butterfly Mimicry Rings
Jahnavi Joshi, Anupama Prakash, and Krushnamegh Kunte

Quantitative Genetics

Recent Papers

Beyond Brownian motion and the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process: Stochastic diffusion models for the evolution of quantitative characters

Simone P. Blomberg, Suren Rathnayake, and Cheyenne Moreau

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

Why So Variable: Can Genetic Variance in Flowering Thresholds Be Maintained by Fluctuating Selection?

Mark Rees and Stephen P. Ellner

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

The Critical Role of Infectious Disease in Compensatory Population Growth in Response to Culling

Eleanor Tanner, Andy White, Peter W. W. Lurz, Christian Gortázar, Iratxe Díez-Delgado, and Mike Boots

American Society of Naturalists Address

From the Past to the Future: Considering the Value and Limits of Evolutionary Prediction

Ruth G. Shaw

Early Life Stress Strengthens Trait Covariance: A Plastic Response That Results in Reduced Flexibility

Loren Merrill and Jennifer L. Grindstaff

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

Environmental Stress Increases the Magnitude of Nonadditive Genetic Variation in Offspring Fitness in the Frog Crinia georgiana

Tabitha S. Rudin-Bitterli, Nicola J. Mitchell, and Jonathan P. Evans

Female Life-History Trade-Offs and the Maintenance of Genetic Variation in Drosophila melanogaster

Devin Arbuthnott

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

Phylogenetics

Recent Papers

Beyond Brownian motion and the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process: Stochastic diffusion models for the evolution of quantitative characters

Simone P. Blomberg, Suren Rathnayake, and Cheyenne Moreau

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

Gliding dragons and flying squirrels: diversifying versus stabilizing selection on morphology following the evolution of an innovation

Terry John Ord, Joan Garcia-Porta, Marina Querejeta, and David C. Collar

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

Comparative analyses of phenotypic sequences using phylogenetic trees

Daniel S. Caetano and Jeremy M Beaulieu

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

Reconstructing the Geography of Speciation from Contemporary Biodiversity Data

Alexander Skeels and Marcel Cardillo

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

Drivers of Phylogenetic Assemblage Structure of the Furnariides, a Widespread Clade of Lowland Neotropical Birds

Jesús N. Pinto-Ledezma, Alex E. Jahn, Victor R. Cueto, José Alexandre F. Diniz-Filho, and Fabricio Villalobos

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

Integrating Genetic and Demographic Effects of Connectivity on Population Stability: The Case of Hatchery Trucking in Salmon

Allison G. Dedrick and Marissa L. Baskett

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

Phylo-Allometric Analyses Showcase the Interplay between Life-History Patterns and Phenotypic Convergence in Cleaner Wrasses

Vikram B. Baliga and Rita S. Mehta

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

Biogeography

Recent Papers

A Grinnellian Niche Perspective on Species-Area Relationships

Jorge Soberón

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

Note

Genetic Diversity–Area Relationships across Bird Species

Haiying Fan (樊海英), Qingchen Zhang (张清臣), Juanjuan Rao (饶娟娟), Jingwen Cao (曹静文), and Xin Lu (卢欣)

Abstract & Chinese abstract: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Nov-Fan-A.html

Free Access, Special Feature on Maladaptation

Maladapted Prey Subsidize Predators and Facilitate Range Expansion

Mark C. Urban, Alice Scarpa, Justin M. J. Travis, and Greta Bocedi

Blog and abstract: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Oct-Urban.html

Free Access

Evolution at the Edge of Expanding Populations

Maxime Deforet, Carlos Carmona-Fontaine, Kirill S. Korolev, and Joao B. Xavier

Abstract: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Sep-Deforet-A.html

Decreasing Predator Density and Activity Explains Declining Predation of Insect Prey along Elevational Gradients

Luis F. Camacho and Leticia Avilés

Abstract and Spanish abstract: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Sep-Camacho-A.html

Free Access

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

C. J. Battey

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

Beta Diversity Patterns Derived from Island Biogeography Theory

Muyang Lu, David Vasseur, and Walter Jetz

Blurb and abstract: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Sep-Lu.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

Blurb and abstract: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AugFernandes.html

Free Access

Phytoplankton Species Richness along Coastal and Estuarine Salinity Continua

Kalle Olli, Robert Ptacnik, Riina Klais, and Timo Tamminen

Blog and abstract: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AugOlli.html

Biotic Interactions Contribute to the Geographic Range Limit of an Annual Plant: Herbivory and Phenology Mediate Fitness beyond a Range Margin

John W. Benning, Vincent M. Eckhart, Monica A. Geber, and David A. Moeller

Blog and abstract: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/JuneBenning.html

Free Access

Species’ Range Dynamics Affect the Evolution of Spatial Variation in Plasticity under Environmental Change

Max Schmid, Ramon Dallo, and Frédéric Guillaume

Synthesis, Open Access

A Practical Guide to the Study of Distribution Limits

Yvonne Willi and Josh Van Buskirk

Blurb and abstract: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/JuneWilli.html

Note

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

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

Time Explains Regional Richness Patterns within Clades More Often than Diversification Rates or Area

Hong Li and John J. Wiens

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

Reconstructing the Geography of Speciation from Contemporary Biodiversity Data

Alexander Skeels and Marcel Cardillo

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

Drivers of Phylogenetic Assemblage Structure of the Furnariides, a Widespread Clade of Lowland Neotropical Birds

Jesús N. Pinto-Ledezma, Alex E. Jahn, Victor R. Cueto, José Alexandre F. Diniz-Filho, and Fabricio Villalobos

Lay summary & Spanish abstract: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/FebPintoLedezma.html

An Empirical and Mechanistic Explanation of Abundance-Occupancy Relationships for a Critically Endangered Nomadic Migrant

Matthew H. Webb, Robert Heinsohn, William J. Sutherland, Dejan Stojanovic, and Aleks Terauds

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

Open Access

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

Charles Mullon and Laurent Lehmann

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

Open Access

Geographic Range Dynamics Drove Ancient Hybridization in a Lineage of Angiosperms

Ryan A. Folk, Clayton J. Visger, Pamela S. Soltis, Douglas E. Soltis, and Robert P. Guralnick

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

Open Access

A Framework for Simultaneous Tests of Abiotic, Biotic, and Historical Drivers of Species Distributions: Empirical Tests for North American Wood Warblers Based on Climate and Pollen

Camilo Sanín and Robert P. Anderson

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

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