Fire-driven animal evolution in the Pyrocene

GM Jones, JF Goldberg, TM Wilcox, LB Buckley… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2023 - cell.com
Fire regimes are a major agent of evolution in terrestrial animals. Changing fire regimes and
the capacity for rapid evolution in wild animal populations suggests the potential for rapid …

Ecology and evolution of plasticity

EC Snell-Rood, SM Ehlman - Phenotypic plasticity & evolution, 2021 - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter reviews the ecological conditions that favor the evolution of plasticity, and the
costs and limits that constrain the evolution of plasticity. Variable environments tend to select …

The complexity of urban eco-evolutionary dynamics

M Alberti, EP Palkovacs, SD Roches, LD Meester… - …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Urbanization is changing Earth's ecosystems by altering the interactions and feedbacks
between the fundamental ecological and evolutionary processes that maintain life. Humans …

Light-driven eco-evolutionary dynamics in a synthetic replicator system

K Liu, A Blokhuis, C van Ewijk, A Kiani, J Wu… - Nature Chemistry, 2024 - nature.com
Darwinian evolution involves the inheritance and selection of variations in reproducing
entities. Selection can be based on, among others, interactions with the environment …

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 …

Environmental change and the rate of phenotypic plasticity

T Burton, II Ratikainen, S Einum - Global Change Biology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
With rapid and less predictable environmental change emerging as the 'new norm',
understanding how individuals tolerate environmental stress via plastic, often reversible …

Multi‐dimensionality as a path forward in plant‐soil feedback research

MJ Gundale, P Kardol - Journal of Ecology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Feedback between plants and their associated soil biota is an important driver of plant
distribution, abundance and community composition with consequences for ecosystem …

The physiology of movement

S Goossens, N Wybouw, T Van Leeuwen, D Bonte - Movement Ecology, 2020 - Springer
Movement, from foraging to migration, is known to be under the influence of the
environment. The translation of environmental cues to individual movement decision making …

The role of evolution in shaping ecological networks

ST Segar, TM Fayle, DS Srivastava… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2020 - cell.com
The structure of ecological networks reflects the evolutionary history of their biotic
components, and their dynamics are strongly driven by ecoevolutionary processes. Here, we …

Analysing eco‐evolutionary dynamics—The challenging complexity of the real world

L De Meester, KI Brans, L Govaert… - Functional …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The field of eco‐evolutionary dynamics is developing rapidly, with a growing number of well‐
designed experiments quantifying the impact of evolution on ecological processes and …