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Ecology & Evolutionary Biology: Recent submissions
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Ecological niche model comparison under different climate scenarios: a case study of Olea spp. in Asia
(Ecological Society of America, 2017-05-19)Ecological niche modeling (and the related species distribution modeling) has been used as a tool with which to assess potential impacts of climate change processes on geographic distributions of species. However, the ... -
Effects of Clonal Reproduction of Evolutionary Lag and Evolutionary Rescue
(University of Chicago Press, 2017-08-11)Evolutionary lag—the difference between mean and optimal phenotype in the current environment—is of keen interest in light of rapid environmental change. Many ecologically important organisms have life histories that include ... -
Are fundamental niches larger than the realized? Testing a 50-year-old prediction by Hutchinson
(Public Library of Science, 2017-04-12)For more than 50 years ecological niches have been defined as combinations of multidimensional environmental conditions permitting a species to survive and reproduce. A fundamental niche (NF) is defined as the set of ... -
New species of Southeast Asian Dwarf Tarantula from Thailand: Phlogiellus Pocock, 1897 (Theraphosidae, Selenocosmiinae)
(Pensoft Publishers, 2017-07-11)A new record of the tarantula genus Phlogiellus Pocock, 1897 from Thailand is described. Distributional data, natural history, morphological characters, and illustrations of male and female are provided. The Thai specimens ... -
Revision of the Neotropical water scavenger beetle genus Quadriops Hansen, 1999 (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae, Acidocerinae)
(Pensoft Publishers, 2017-10-03)The genus Quadriops Hansen, 1999 is revised and redescribed. The genus is found to contain six species, including two that are here described as new: Quadriops clusia sp. n. (Brazil, Guyana, Suriname) and Q. acroreius sp. ... -
Revision of the Neotropical water scavenger beetle genus Tobochares Short & García, 2007 (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae, Acidocerinae)
(Pensoft Publishers, 2017-04-21)The genus Tobochares Short & García, 2007 is revised. A combination of morphological and molecular data provide support for ten distinct species. Five new species are described: T. canaliculatus sp. n. (Venezuela), T. ... -
Assessing the Influence of Temporal Autocorrelations on the Population Dynamics of a Disturbance Specialist Plant Population in a Random Environment
(University of Chicago Press, 2017-08-07)Biological populations are strongly influenced by random variations in their environment, which are often autocorrelated in time. For disturbance specialist plant populations, the frequency and intensity of environmental ... -
Disc-shaped fossils resembling porpitids or eldonids from the early Cambrian (Series 2: Stage 4) of western USA
(PeerJ, 2017-06-06)The morphology and affinities of newly discovered disc-shaped, soft-bodied fossils from the early Cambrian (Series 2: Stage 4, Dyeran) Carrara Formation are discussed. These specimens show some similarity to the Ordovician ... -
The dogs of Roman Vindolanda: Quantifying juvenilization and pleiotropic effects of miniaturization.
(2018-11)In this report we focus on harriers, small dogs of gracile build widely represented in Roman artwork, yet not previously documented from skull or skeletal material. With them we compare remains of other types of small dogs ... -
The potential role of hybridization in diversification and speciation in an insular plant lineage: insights from synthetic interspecific hybrids
(Oxford University Press, 2017-09-01)Hybridization is recognized as an important process in plant evolution, and this may be particularly true for island plants where several biotic and abiotic factors facilitate interspecific hybridization. Although rarely ... -
A supertree pipeline for summarizing phylogenetic and taxonomic information for millions of species
(PeerJ, 2017-03-01)We present a new supertree method that enables rapid estimation of a summary tree on the scale of millions of leaves. This supertree method summarizes a collection of input phylogenies and an input taxonomy. We introduce ... -
A genomic assessment of species boundaries and hybridization in a group of highly polymorphic anoles (distichus species complex)
(Wiley Open Access, 2017-04-15)Delimiting young species is one of the great challenges of systematic biology, particularly when the species in question exhibit little morphological divergence. Anolis distichus, a trunk anole with more than a dozen ... -
A new species of the carpenter bee genus Xylocopa from the Sarawat Mountains in southwestern Saudi Arabia (Hymenoptera, Apidae)
(Pensoft Publishers, 2017-11-23)A new species of the carpenter bee genus Xylocopa Latreille (Xylocopinae: Xylocopini) is described and figured from two localities in southern Saudi Arabia. Xylocopa (Koptortosoma) sarawatica Engel, sp. n. is a relatively ... -
A new species of <i>Mermiglossa</i> from Kenya, with comments on the arrangement of Old World Panurginae (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae)
(University of Kansas & American Museum of Natural History, 2017-11-22)A new species of the panurgine bee genus Mermiglossa Friese (Panurginae) is described and figured from females captured near Voi in the southern part of the former Coast Province, Kenya, a historical type locality for ... -
A tribute to Victor H. Gonzalez: Twenty years of melittological contributions.
(University of Kansas & American Museum of Natural History, 2017-11-12)In celebration of the 40th birthday of Victor H. Gonzalez, melittologist and founding assistant editor of the Journal of Melittology, we provide here a brief biographical sketch and summary of his contributions to ... -
A new subgenus of <i>Heterotrigona</i> from New Guinea (Hymenoptera: Apidae)
(University of Kansas & American Museum of Natural History, 2017-11-03)A new subgenus is established within the Indomalayan stingless bee genus Heterotrigona Schwarz (Meliponini). Sahulotrigona Engel & Rasmussen, new subgenus, is distinguished from amongst other Heterotrigona, particularly ... -
A new genus of protorhyssaline wasps in Raritan amber (Hymenoptera, Braconidae)
(Pensoft Publishers, 2017-10-23)A second species of protorhyssaline wasps (Braconidae) is described and figured from inclusions in Upper Cretaceous (Turonian) amber of the Raritan Formation in New Jersey, USA. Rhetinorhyssalites emersoni, gen. n., sp. ... -
An Early Miocene bumble bee from northern Bohemia (Hymenoptera, Apidae)
(Pensoft Publishers, 2017-10-19)A new species of fossil bumble bee (Apinae: Bombini) is described and figured from Early Miocene (Burdigalian) deposits of the Most Basin at the Bílina Mine, Czech Republic. Bombus trophonius sp. n., is placed within the ... -
The wasp larva's last supper: 100 million years of evolutionary stasis in the larval development of rhopalosomatid wasps (Hymenoptera: Rhopalosomatidae)
(Copernicus Publications, 2017-08-25)Rhopalosomatidae are an unusual family of wasps (Hymenoptera: Aculeata) comprising less than 100 species found in the tropics and subtropics of all continents except Europe and Antarctica. Whereas some species resemble ... -
Replacement names for bees in the tribe Megachilini (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae)
(University of Kansas & American Museum of Natural History, 2017-06-29)Eight instances of homonymy are identified in the megachiline genera Coelioxys Latreille and Megachile Latreille, with replacement names established for the junior homonyms. Coelioxys (Coelioxys) lethosyne Engel, new name, ...