Climate Change

Recent Papers

Caching in or Falling Back at the Sevilleta: The Effects of Body Size and Seasonal Uncertainty on Desert Rodent Foraging

Justin D. Yeakel, Uttam Bhat, and Seth D. Newsome

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

Free Access

Quantifying the Contribution of Habitats and Pathways to a Spatially Structured Population Facing Environmental Change

Christine Sample, Joanna A. Bieri, Benjamin Allen, Yulia Dementieva, Alyssa Carson, Connor Higgins, Sadie Piatt, Shirley Qiu, Summer Stafford, Brady J. Mattsson, Darius J. Semmens, Jay E. Diffendorfer, and Wayne E. Thogmartin

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

Climate Change and Thermoregulatory Consequences of Activity Time in Mammals

Timothy C. Bonebrake, Enrico L. Rezende, and Francisco Bozinovic

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

Dispersal Increases the Resilience of Tropical Savanna and Forest Distributions

Nikunj Goel, Vishwesha Guttal, Simon A. Levin, and A. Carla Staver

Blog https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/May-Goel.html

Does Evolutionary History Correlate with Contemporary Extinction Risk by Influencing Range Size Dynamics?

Andrew J. Tanentzap, Javier Igea, Matthew G. Johnston, and Matthew J. Larcombe

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

Spatial Population Structure Determines Extinction Risk in Climate-Induced Range Shifts

Christopher Weiss-Lehman and Allison K. Shaw

https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Jan-Weiss-Lehman.html

Decreased Precipitation Predictability Negatively Affects Population Growth through Differences in Adult Survival

Guillem Masó, Arpat Ozgul, and Patrick S. Fitze

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Jan-Maso.html

Meta-analysis Shows That Rapid Phenotypic Change in Angiosperms in Response to Environmental Change Is Followed by Stasis

Lucas D. Gorné and Sandra Díaz

Blurb: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Dec-Gorne.html

Climate Warming, Resource Availability, and the Metabolic Meltdown of Ectotherms

Raymond B. Huey and Joel G. Kingsolver

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

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

Note, Open Access

Pollen on Stigmas of Herbarium Specimens: A Window into the Impacts of a Century of Environmental Disturbance on Pollen Transfer

Anna L. Johnson, María Rebolleda-Gómez, and Tia-Lynn Ashman

Blurb: https://amnat.org/an/newpapers/Sep-Johnson.html

Intraspecific Variation in Worker Body Size Makes North American Bumble Bees (Bombus spp.) Less Susceptible to Decline

Matthew W. Austin and Aimee S. Dunlap

Blurb: https://amnat.org/an/newpapers/Sep-Austin.html

Antagonistic Responses of Exposure to Sublethal Temperatures: Adaptive Phenotypic Plasticity Coincides with a Reduction in Organismal Performance

Anthony L. Gilbert and Donald B. Miles

Blurb: https://amnat.org/an/newpapers/Sep-Gilbert.html

Special Feature on Maladaptation

Phenotypic Plasticity and Local Adaptation in a Wild Hibernator Evaluated through Reciprocal Translocation

Jeffrey E. Lane, Zenon J. Czenze, Rachel Findlay-Robinson, and Erin Bayne

Special Feature on Maladaptation

Lagging Adaptation to Climate Supersedes Local Adaptation to Herbivory in an Annual Monkeyflower

Nicholas J. Kooyers, Jack M. Colicchio, Anna B. Greenlee, Erin Patterson, Neal T. Handloser, and Benjamin K. Blackman

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

Special Feature on Maladaptation, Open Access

Maladaptive Shifts in Life History in a Changing Environment

Olivier Cotto, Linnea Sandell, Luis-Miguel Chevin, and Ophélie Ronce

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

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

Max Schmid, Ramon Dallo, and Frédéric Guillaume

Predicting Habitat Choice after Rapid Environmental Change

Philip H. Crowley, Pete C. Trimmer, Orr Spiegel, Sean M. Ehlman, William S. Cuello, and Andrew Sih

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

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

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

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

Note

Shifting Vital Rate Correlations Alter Predicted Population Responses to Increasingly Variable Environments

David T. Iles, Robert F. Rockwell, and David N. Koons

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

Diversity and Diversification

Recent Papers

Why Are There So Many Flowering Plants? A Multiscale Analysis of Plant Diversification

Tania Hernández-Hernández and John J. Wiens

Detecting Mosaic Patterns in Macroevolutionary Disparity

Caroline Parins-Fukuchi

Gliding Dragons and Flying Squirrels: Diversifying versus Stabilizing Selection on Morphology following the Evolution of an Innovation

Terry J. 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

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

Open 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: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Dec-Resetarits.html

A Grinnellian Niche Perspective on Species-Area Relationships

Jorge Soberón

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)

Head Shape Modulates Diversification of a Classic Cichlid Pharyngeal Jaw Innovation

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

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

Open Access

A Minimal Model for the Latitudinal Diversity Gradient Suggests a Dominant Role for Ecological Limits

Rampal S. Etienne, Juliano Sarmento Cabral, Oskar Hagen, Florian Hartig, Allen H. Hurlbert, Loïc Pellissier, Mikael Pontarp, and David Storch

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

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

Richard K. Simpson and Kevin J. McGraw

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

Beta Diversity Patterns Derived from Island Biogeography Theory

Muyang Lu, David Vasseur, and Walter Jetz

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

Natural History Note

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

Jimena Golcher-Benavides and Catherine E. Wagner

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Aug-Golcher-Benavides.html (with cartoon)

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

Meredith C. Miles and Matthew J. Fuxjager

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

Are Pheromones Key to Unlocking Cryptic Lizard Diversity?

Stephen M. Zozaya, Megan Higgie, Craig Moritz, and Conrad J. Hoskin

Open Access

Phytoplankton Species Richness along Coastal and Estuarine Salinity Continua

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

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

The Relationship between Spatial Structure and the Maintenance of Diversity in Microbial Populations

Michael T. France and Larry J. Forney

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

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

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

Tim Connallon, Shefali Sharma, and Colin Olito

Historical Comment

Divergent Uses of “Parallel Evolution” during the History of The American Naturalist

Yoel E. Stuart

Synthesis

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

Communities

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