Anthropogenic Change and the Process of Speciation

M Ålund, M Cenzer, N Bierne… - Cold Spring …, 2023 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Anthropogenic impacts on the environment alter speciation processes by affecting both
geographical contexts and selection patterns on a worldwide scale. Here we review …

Linking human impacts to community processes in terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems

IR McFadden, A Sendek, M Brosse, PM Bach… - Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Human impacts such as habitat loss, climate change and biological invasions are radically
altering biodiversity, with greater effects projected into the future. Evidence suggests human …

[HTML][HTML] Genomic architecture of adaptive radiation and hybridization in Alpine whitefish

R De-Kayne, OM Selz, DA Marques, D Frei… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Adaptive radiations represent some of the most remarkable explosions of diversification
across the tree of life. However, the constraints to rapid diversification and how they are …

A science and management partnership to restore coregonine diversity to the Laurentian Great Lakes

DB Bunnell, AS Ackiss, KM Alofs, CO Brant… - Environmental …, 2023 - cdnsciencepub.com
Similar to many freshwater ecosystems, the Laurentian Great Lakes of North America have
undergone numerous anthropogenic stressors resulting in considerable loss of biodiversity …

Introgression from extinct species facilitates adaptation to its vacated niche

D Frei, P Reichlin, O Seehausen… - Molecular …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Anthropogenic disturbances of ecosystems are causing a loss of biodiversity at an
unprecedented rate. Species extinctions often leave ecological niches underutilized, and …

Ecology and the origin of nonephemeral species

SAS Anderson, H López-Fernández… - The American …, 2023 - journals.uchicago.edu
Research over the past three decades has shown that ecology-based extrinsic reproductive
barriers can rapidly arise to generate incipient species—but such barriers can also rapidly …

The Role of Hybridization in Species Formation and Persistence

JV Peñalba, A Runemark, JI Meier… - Cold Spring …, 2024 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Hybridization, or interbreeding between different taxa, was traditionally considered to be
rare and to have a largely detrimental impact on biodiversity, sometimes leading to the …

Why Do Some Lineages Radiate While Others Do Not? Perspectives for Future Research on Adaptive Radiations

R De-Kayne, R Schley, JMI Barth… - Cold Spring …, 2024 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Understanding the processes that drive phenotypic diversification and underpin speciation
is key to elucidating how biodiversity has evolved. Although these processes have been …

The population bottleneck of the Iberian wolf impacted genetic diversity but not admixture with domestic dogs: A temporal genomic approach

D Lobo, JV López‐Bao, R Godinho - Molecular Ecology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
After decades of intense persecution, the Iberian wolf subspecies faced a severe bottleneck
in the 1970s that considerably reduced its range and population size, nearly leading to its …

Ecological disturbance reduces genomic diversity across an Alpine whitefish adaptive radiation

D Frei, S Mwaiko, O Seehausen… - Evolutionary …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Genomic diversity is associated with the adaptive potential of a population and thereby
impacts the extinction risk of a species during environmental change. However, empirical …