Phenotypic variation in urban environments: mechanisms and implications

MJ Thompson, P Capilla-Lasheras… - Trends in ecology & …, 2022 - cell.com
In the past decade, numerous studies have explored how urbanisation affects the mean
phenotypes of populations, but it remains unknown how urbanisation impacts phenotypic …

How to measure response diversity

SRPJ Ross, OL Petchey, T Sasaki… - Methods in Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The insurance effect of biodiversity—that diversity stabilises aggregate ecosystem properties—
is mechanistically underlain by inter‐and intraspecific trait variation in organismal responses …

The evolution of niche overlap and competitive differences

AI Pastore, G Barabás, MD Bimler… - Nature Ecology & …, 2021 - nature.com
Competition can result in evolutionary changes to coexistence between competitors but
there are no theoretical models that predict how the components of coexistence change …

The importance of species interactions in eco-evolutionary community dynamics under climate change

A Åkesson, A Curtsdotter, A Eklöf, B Ebenman… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Eco-evolutionary dynamics are essential in shaping the biological response of communities
to ongoing climate change. Here we develop a spatially explicit eco-evolutionary framework …

Intraspecific variation in species interactions promotes the feasibility of mutualistic assemblages

B Arroyo‐Correa, P Jordano, I Bartomeus - Ecology Letters, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Patterns of resource use observed at the species level emerge from the way individuals
exploit the range of available resources. Hence, accounting for interindividual differences in …

Integrating eco‐evolutionary dynamics and modern coexistence theory

M Yamamichi, T Gibbs, JM Levine - Ecology letters, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Community ecology typically assumes that competitive exclusion and species coexistence
are unaffected by evolution on the time scale of ecological dynamics. However, recent …

Evolution in a community context: trait responses to multiple species interactions

CP Terhorst, PC Zee, KD Heath… - The American …, 2018 - journals.uchicago.edu
Species that coexist in diverse natural communities interact in complex ways that alter each
other's abundances and affect selection on each other's traits. Consequently, predicting trait …

Drivers of individual niche variation in coexisting species

R Costa‐Pereira, VHW Rudolf, FL Souza… - Journal of Animal …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Although neglected by classic niche theory, individual variation is now recognized as a
prevalent phenomenon in nature with evolutionary and ecological relevance. Recent theory …

Pluck or luck: does trait variation or chance drive variation in lifetime reproductive success?

RE Snyder, SP Ellner - The American Naturalist, 2018 - journals.uchicago.edu
While there has been extensive interest in how intraspecific trait variation affects ecological
processes, outcomes are highly variable even when individuals are identical: some are …

Niche differences, not fitness differences, explain predicted coexistence across ecological groups

L Buche, JW Spaak, J Jarillo… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the drivers of species coexistence is essential in ecology. Niche and fitness
differences (ie how species limit themselves compared to others and species' differences in …