Life history trade-offs, the intensity of competition, and coexistence in novel and evolving communities under climate change

LT Lancaster, G Morrison… - … Transactions of the …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The consequences of climate change for local biodiversity are little understood in process or
mechanism, but these changes are likely to reflect both changing regional species pools …

Body size evolution in an old insect order: No evidence for Cope's Rule in spite of fitness benefits of large size

JT Waller, EI Svensson - Evolution, 2017 - academic.oup.com
We integrate field data and phylogenetic comparative analyses to investigate causes of
body size evolution and stasis in an old insect order: odonates (“dragonflies and …

Natural selection mediated by seasonal time constraints increases the alignment between evolvability and developmental plasticity

F Johansson, PC Watts, S Sniegula, D Berger - Evolution, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Phenotypic plasticity can either hinder or promote adaptation to novel environments. Recent
studies that have quantified alignments between plasticity, genetic variation, and divergence …

Microgeographic differentiation in thermal performance curves between rural and urban populations of an aquatic insect

N Tüzün, L Op de Beeck, KI Brans… - Evolutionary …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The rapidly increasing rate of urbanization has a major impact on the ecology and evolution
of species. While increased temperatures are a key aspect of urbanization (“urban heat …

Rapid larval development under time stress reduces adult life span through increasing oxidative damage

L Janssens, R Stoks - Functional Ecology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
While a trade‐off between larval development and adult life span is key to understand why
not all animals develop at their maximum rate and why life histories align along a fast‐slow …

Microgeographic differentiation in thermal and antipredator responses and their carry-over effects across life stages in a damselfly

NR Amer, R Stoks, A Antoł, S Sniegula - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Global warming and invasive species, separately or combined, can impose a large impact
on the condition of native species. However, we know relatively little about how these two …

How is adaptive potential distributed within species ranges?

LK Pennington, RA Slatyer, DV Ruiz-Ramos… - …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Quantitative genetic variation (QGV) represents a major component of adaptive potential
and, if reduced toward range-edge populations, could prevent a species' expansion or …

Warming and predation risk only weakly shape size-mediated priority effects in a cannibalistic damselfly

M Raczyński, R Stoks, S Sniegula - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Differences in hatching dates can shape intraspecific interactions through size-mediated
priority effects (SMPE), a phenomenon where bigger, early hatched individuals gain …

Mixed support for an alignment between phenotypic plasticity and genetic differentiation in damselfly wing shape

F Johansson, D Berger, D Outomuro… - Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The relationship between genetic differentiation and phenotypic plasticity can provide
information on whether plasticity generally facilitates or hinders adaptation to environmental …

Size‐mediated priority effects are trait‐dependent and consistent across latitudes in a damselfly

M Raczyński, R Stoks, F Johansson, S Sniegula - Oikos, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Variation in hatching time (phenology) might cause size differences within populations
resulting in size‐mediated priority effects (SMPEs) shaping intraspecific interactions. These …