From the Editor’s Desk of The American Naturalist: 2019

December 9, 2019

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

December 6, 2019

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

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

November 13, 2019

Modeling and Theory

Recent Papers

Pinned--
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
F1000 rated "Very Good"

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

Trait Variation

Recent Papers

Free Access

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

Population Genetics

Recent Papers

Free Access

Evolution of Stress-Induced Mutagenesis in the Presence of Horizontal Gene Transfer

Yoav Ram and Lilach Hadany

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

Open Access

Stage-Structured Evolutionary Demography: Linking Life Histories, Population Genetics, and Ecological Dynamics

Charlotte de Vries and Hal Caswell

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

Effects of Offspring and Parental Inbreeding on Parent-Offspring Communication
Sarah N. Mattey, Jon Richardson, Tom Ratz, and Per T. Smiseth

Class Structure, Demography, and Selection: Reproductive-Value Weighting in Nonequilibrium, Polymorphic Populations
Sébastien Lion
Lay summary: http://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/MayLion.html

Reproduction

Recent Papers

Open 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

Testosterone modulates status-specific patterns of cooperation in a social network

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

Summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Jan-Ryder.html

Open Access

Deer indirectly alter the reproductive strategy and operational sex ratio of an unpalatable forest perennial

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

Summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Jan-Bialic-Murphy.html

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

Queen Longevity and Fecundity Affect Conflict with Workers over Resource Inheritance in a Social Insect

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

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

The Effect of Pollen Limitation on the Evolution of Mating System and Seed Size in Hermaphroditic Plants

Qiaoqiao Huang and Martin Burd

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

Open Access, Natural History Note

Anther Rubbing, a New Mechanism That Actively Promotes Selfing in Plants

Mohamed Abdelaziz, Mohammed Bakkali, José M. Gómez, Enrica Olivieri, and Francisco Perfectti

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

Open Access

Fitness Consequences of Female Alternative Reproductive Tactics in House Mice (Mus musculus domesticus)

Manuela Ferrari, Anna K. Lindholm, and Barbara König

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

Female-Biased Sex Ratios Increase Colony Survival and Reproductive Output in the Spider Anelosimus studiosus

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

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

Note

Chronological and Biological Age Predict Seasonal Reproductive Timing: An Investigation of Clutch Initiation and Telomeres in Birds of Known Age

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

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

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

Open Access
A Practical Guide to the Study of Distribution Limits
Yvonne Willi and Josh Van Buskirk
Summary: https://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

See http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/an/instruct for details and submission instructions. A short proposal is required for Syntheses and Perspectives; it will be given full and constructive attention.

October 22, 2019

Coevolution

Recent Papers

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

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

Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Nov-Willink.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

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

Free Access

How Does the Evolution of Universal Ecological Traits Affect Population Size? Lessons from Simple Models

Peter A. Abrams

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

Indirect Interactions Shape Selection in a Multispecies Food Web

Denon Start, Arthur E. Weis, and Benjamin Gilbert

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

Gene-Culture Coinheritance of a Behavioral Trait

Elliot G. Aguilar and Erol Akçay

Coevolution Slows the Disassembly of Mutualistic Networks

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

Host Traits Drive Viral Life Histories across Phytoplankton Viruses

Kyle F. Edwards and Grieg F. Steward

Neutral Community Dynamics and the Evolution of Species Interactions

Marco Túlio P. Coelho and Thiago F. Rangel

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

Natural History Note

Hollow Internodes Permit a Neotropical Understory Plant to Shelter Multiple Mutualistic Ant Species, Obtaining Protection and Nutrient Provisioning (Myrmecotrophy)

Alain Dejean, Frédéric Petitclerc, Arthur Compin, Frédéric Azémar,1 Bruno Corbara, Jacques H. C. Delabie, and Céline Leroy

Note

Rethinking Conventional Wisdom: Are Locally Adapted Parasites Ahead in the Coevolutionary Race?

Scott L. Nuismer

Sanctions, Partner Recognition, and Variation in Mutualism

Jeremy B. Yoder and Peter Tiffin

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

Open Access

The Role of the Environment in the Evolution of Tolerance and Resistance to a Pathogen

Michael Zeller and Jacob C. Koella

From the Editor’s Desk of
The American Naturalist

December 9, 2019

Sexual Selection

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December 6, 2019

Adaptive Radiation

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Behavioral Evolution

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Mutualism

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Quantitative Genetics

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Phylogenetics

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Biogeography

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Niches

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November 13, 2019

Modeling and Theory

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Trait Variation

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Communities

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Population Genetics

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Reproduction

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October 22, 2019

Coevolution

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