Dispersal syndromes can link intraspecific trait variability and meta-ecosystem functioning

A Raffard, E Bestion, J Cote, B Haegeman… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2022 - cell.com
Dispersal mediates the flow of organisms in meta-communities and subsequently energy
and material flows in meta-ecosystems. Individuals within species often vary in dispersal …

Changes in size of key indicators used in palaeolimnological studies: A critical review

VV Sysoev, AG Ibragimova, MA Gololobova… - Earth-Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
Body size may potentially be a key characteristic for both an individual and a community
response to environmental change that palaeolimnological studies can document. Most …

Admixture between old lineages facilitated contemporary ecological speciation in Lake Constance stickleback

DA Marques, K Lucek, VC Sousa, L Excoffier… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Ecological speciation can sometimes rapidly generate reproductively isolated populations
coexisting in sympatry, but the origin of genetic variation permitting this is rarely known. We …

Direct effect of artificial warming on communities is stronger than its indirect effect through body mass reduction

S Bazin, V Diouloufet, A Molina, T Peroux, JM Montoya… - Oikos, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Theory predicts that morphological and bioenergetic constraints due to temperature‐
induced body size reduction can modulate the direct effects of warming on biotic …

Threespine stickleback in Lake Constance: The ecology and genomic substrate of a recent invasion

CM Hudson, K Lucek, DA Marques… - Frontiers in ecology …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Invasive species can be powerful models for studying contemporary evolution in natural
environments. As invading organisms often encounter new habitats during colonization, they …

Context‐dependent evolution of high trophic position drives functional disparity in subterranean crustaceans

E Premate, Š Borko, F Altermatt, C Fišer - Functional Ecology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Species performance depends on the concerted interplay of their functional traits. Natural
selection acts on the performance of the species and influences entire suits of …

The role of fish predators and their foraging traits in shaping zooplankton community structure

M Moosmann, R Greenway, R Oester… - Ecology …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Differentiation of foraging traits among predator populations may help explain observed
variation in the structure of prey communities. However, few studies have investigated the …

Climate and intraspecific variation in a consumer species drive ecosystem multifunctionality

A Raffard, J Cucherousset, F Santoul, L Di Gesu… - Oikos, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change is altering the multifunctionality of ecosystems worldwide and is often
associated with changes in biodiversity that can modulate the impacts of climate change on …

Fit and fatty freshwater fish: contrasting polyunsaturated fatty acid phenotypes between hybridizing stickleback lineages

CM Hudson, SN Ladd, MC Leal, CJ Schubert… - Oikos, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Long‐chain polyunsaturated fatty acids are biologically important lipids that are unevenly
distributed between and throughout environments. This heterogeneity can affect the …

Prickly postglacial pioneers: freshwater plankton community composition influences fatty acid desaturase (FADS2) copy number in southern Greenland threespine …

CM Hudson, CW Twining, M Moosmann, R Greenway… - Oikos, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The adaptation of marine fish to freshwater environments includes prodigious examples of
rapid evolution. Given the scarcity of ω‐3 long‐chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LC‐PUFA) …