Cophylogenetic methods to untangle the evolutionary history of ecological interactions

W Dismukes, MP Braga, DH Hembry… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Myriad branches in the tree of life are intertwined through ecological relationships. Biologists
have long hypothesized that intimate symbioses between lineages can influence …

Next-generation cophylogeny: unravelling eco-evolutionary processes

I Blasco-Costa, A Hayward, R Poulin… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2021 - cell.com
A fundamental question in evolutionary biology is how microevolutionary processes
translate into species diversification. Cophylogeny provides an appropriate framework to …

Seeing the forest for the trees: Putting multilayer networks to work for community ecology

MC Hutchinson, B Bramon Mora, S Pilosof… - Functional …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
A framework for the description and analysis of multilayer networks is established in
statistical physics, and calls are increasing for their adoption by community ecologists …

Disentangling the role of floral sensory stimuli in pollination networks

A Kantsa, RA Raguso, AG Dyer, JM Olesen… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Despite progress in understanding pollination network structure, the functional roles of floral
sensory stimuli (visual, olfactory) have never been addressed comprehensively in a …

A broadscale analysis of host‐symbiont cophylogeny reveals the drivers of phylogenetic congruence

A Hayward, R Poulin, S Nakagawa - Ecology Letters, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Symbioses exert substantial biological influence, with great evolutionary and ecological
relevance for disease, major evolutionary transitions, and the structure and function of …

Food web reconstruction through phylogenetic transfer of low‐rank network representation

T Strydom, S Bouskila, F Banville… - Methods in Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Despite their importance in many ecological processes, collecting data and information on
ecological interactions is an exceedingly challenging task. For this reason, large parts of the …

Macroevolution of the plant–hummingbird pollination system

E Barreto, MMA Boehm, E Ogutcen… - Biological …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Plant–hummingbird interactions are considered a classic example of coevolution, a process
in which mutually dependent species influence each other's evolution. Plants depend on …

Specialist bee species are larger and less phylogenetically distinct than generalists in tropical plant–bee interaction networks

RL Raiol, M Gastauer, AJ Campbell… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Bee pollinators are key components of terrestrial ecosystems. Evidence is mounting that
bees are globally in decline, and species with a higher degree of specialization are the most …

Geographic variation in the robustness of pollination networks is mediated by modularity

H Liu, Z Liu, M Zhang, J Bascompte… - Global Ecology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Extinctions and coextinctions seriously threaten global plant–pollinator assemblies, and
thus a better understanding of the geographic variability in their robustness is urgently …

Phylogenetic congruence between Neotropical primates and plants is driven by frugivory

L Fuzessy, FAO Silveira, L Culot, P Jordano… - Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Seed dispersal benefits plants and frugivores, and potentially drives co‐evolution, with
consequences to diversification evidenced for, eg, primates. Evidence for macro …