Brewster, Casey L Gifford, Matthew Ortega, Jason Beaupre, Steven J
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The American naturalist
AbstractAccelerated extinction rates have prompted an increased focus on the interplay between environmental change and species response. The effects of environmental change on thermal opportunity are typically considered through a climate change context. However, habitat alteration can also have strong effects on the thermal environment. Additiona...
Thompson, Patrick Hürlemann, Samuel Altermatt, Florian
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The American naturalist
AbstractPredicting how ecological communities will respond to environmental change is challenging but highly relevant in this era of global change. Ecologists commonly use current spatial relationships between species and environmental conditions to make predictions about the future. This assumes that species will track conditions by shifting their...
Thunell, Viktor Lindmark, Max Huss, Magnus Gårdmark, Anna
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The American naturalist
AbstractSpecies interactions mediate how warming affects community composition via individual growth and population size structure. While predictions on how warming affects composition of size- or stage-structured communities have so far focused on linear (food chain) communities, mixed competition-predation interactions, such as intraguild predati...
Huey, Raymond B Miles, Donald B Pianka, Eric R
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The American naturalist
AbstractAn ecological issue can best be studied by gathering original data that are specifically targeted for that issue. But ascertaining-a priori-whether a novel issue will be worth exploring can be problematic without background data. However, an issue's potential merit can sometimes be evaluated by repurposing legacy or other data that had been...
Klein, Kora Kokko, Hanna Ten Brink, Hanna
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The American naturalist
AbstractIn haplodiploids, (1) alleles spend twice as many generations in females as in males, (2) males are never heterozygous and therefore express recessive alleles, and (3) males sire daughters but not sons. Intralocus sexual conflict therefore operates differently in haplodiploids than in diploids and shares strong similarities with loci on X (...
Fukami, Tadashi
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The American naturalist
Bergamo, Pedro Joaquim Traveset, Anna Lázaro, Amparo
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The American naturalist
AbstractIndirect effects arise when one species influences how another species interacts with a third. Pollinator-mediated indirect effects are widespread in many plant communities and are often not restricted to plant species pairs. An analytical framework does not exist yet that allows for the evaluation of indirect effects through shared pollina...
Lerner, Noah Luizzi, Victoria Antonovics, Janis Bruns, Emily Hood, Michael E
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The American naturalist
AbstractReciprocal selection promotes the specificity of host-pathogen associations and resistance polymorphisms in response to disease. However, plants and animals also vary in response to pathogen species not previously encountered in nature, with potential effects on new disease emergence. Using anther smut disease, we show that resistance (meas...
Martin-Roy, Raphael Nygård, Elisa Nouhaud, Pierre Kulmuni, Jonna
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The American naturalist
AbstractGenetic variability is essential for adaptation and could be acquired via hybridization with a closely related lineage. We use ants to investigate thermal adaptation and the link between temperature and genetic variation arising from hybridization. We test for differences in cold and heat tolerance between Finnish Formica polyctena and Form...
Freeman, Benjamin G Scholer, Micah N Boehm, Mannfred M A Heavyside, Julian Schluter, Dolph
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The American naturalist
