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Ecology & Evolutionary Biology: Recent submissions
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Digital Accessible Knowledge and well-inventoried sites for birds in Mexico: baseline sites for measuring faunistic change
(PeerJ, 2016-09-07)Background Faunal change is a basic and fundamental element in ecology, biogeography, and conservation biology, yet vanishingly few detailed studies have documented such changes rigorously over decadal time scales. This ... -
Adaptive signal coloration maintained in the face of gene flow in a Hispaniolan Anolis Lizard
(BioMed Central, 2016-09-20)Background Studies of geographic variation can provide insight into the evolutionary processes involved in the early stages of biological diversification. In particular, multiple, replicated cases of geographic trait ... -
Genomic insights into the evolutionary origin of Myxozoa within Cnidaria
(National Academy of Sciences, 2015)The Myxozoa comprise over 2,000 species of microscopic obligate parasites that use both invertebrate and vertebrate hosts as part of their life cycle. Although the evolutionary origin of myxozoans has been elusive, a close ... -
Nonlinear tree growth dynamics predict resilience to disturbance
(Ecological Society of America, 2015-11)Following a disturbance, why does one tree survive while another dies? Physiological mechanisms may explain varying responses to disturbance between different tree species, but fewer studies have investigated conspecific ... -
New fossils from the Paleogene of central Libya illuminate the evolutionary history of endemic African anomaluroid rodents
(Frontiers Media, 2015-10-06)Anomaluroid rodents show interesting biogeographic and macroevolutionary patterns, although their fossil record is meager and knowledge of the natural history of extant members of the clade remains inadequate. Living ... -
Climate Change Influences on the Global Potential Distribution of the Mosquito Culex quinquefasciatus, Vector of West Nile Virus and Lymphatic Filariasis
(Public Library of Science, 2016-10-03)Rapid emergence of most vector-borne diseases (VBDs) may be associated with range expansion of vector populations. Culex quinquefasciatus Say 1823 is a potential vector of West Nile virus, Saint Louis encephalitis virus, ... -
Photography-based taxonomy is inadequate, unnecessary, and potentially harmful for biological sciences
(Zootaxa, 2016-11)The question whether taxonomic descriptions naming new animal species without type specimen(s) deposited in collections should be accepted for publication by scientific journals and allowed by the Code has already been ... -
Recent progress and future challenges in algal biofuel production
(F1000Research, 2016-10-04)Modern society is fueled by fossil energy produced millions of years ago by photosynthetic organisms. Cultivating contemporary photosynthetic producers to generate energy and capture carbon from the atmosphere is one ... -
Phylogenomic analysis of carangimorph fishes reveals flatfish asymmetry arose in a blink of the evolutionary eye
(BioMed Central, 2016-10-21)Background Flatfish cranial asymmetry represents one of the most remarkable morphological innovations among vertebrates, and has fueled vigorous debate on the manner and rate at which strikingly divergent phenotypes ... -
Investigating microbial transformations of soil organic matter: synthesizing knowledge from disparate fields to guide new experimentation
(European Geosciences Union, 2015-04-09)Discerning why some soil organic matter (SOM) leaves soil profiles relatively quickly while other compounds, especially at depth, can be retained for decades to millennia is challenging for a multitude of reasons. Simultaneous ... -
Geographic distribution modeling of infectious disease dynamics in space and time
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)The geographic distribution of infectious diseases has received considerable attention after several dramatic emergence events around the world. Here, I took the full advantages of several approaches available in a single ... -
Creating Individual Dispersal Hypotheses Improves Stacked Species Distribution Model Performance
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)Stacked distribution models are an important step towards estimating species richness and community composition, but they frequently overpredict these metrics. Developing a priori accessible area (i.e., M) hypotheses to ... -
Use of genomic data to resolve gene tree discordance in a Southeast Asian genus: Readdressing paraphyly in the spiderhunter (Nectariniidae, Arachnothera) phylogeny
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)Reduced representation genomic sequencing methods provide a fast and relatively inexpensive way to gather sequence data from thousands of loci throughout the genome. These data can be used to test previous phylogenetic ... -
Seed fates in crop–wild hybrid sunflower: crop allele and maternal effects
(Wiley Open Access, 2014-12-05)Domestication has resulted in selection upon seed traits found in wild populations, yet crop-wild hybrids retain some aspects of both parental phenotypes. Seed fates of germination, dormancy, and mortality can influence ... -
Life history traits and phenotypic selection among sunflower crop–wild hybrids and their wild counterpart: implications for crop allele introgression
(Wiley Open Access, 2015-05-12)Hybridization produces strong evolutionary forces. In hybrid zones, selection can differentially occur on traits and selection intensities may differ among hybrid generations. Understanding these dynamics in crop–wild ... -
Optimal Control of An Sir Model With Changing Behavior Through An Education Campaign
(Texas State University, Department of Mathematics, 2015-02-19)An SIR type model is expanded to include the use of education or information given to the public as a control to manage a disease outbreak when effective treatments or vaccines are not readily available or too costly to ... -
DATA SETS: Occurrence data for Phylloscopus trochiloides ring species (full data set prior to reduction)
(2016-11-06)Full set of occurrence data derived from GBIF and Xeno-Canto searches. Note that these data are 'as is', and represent the version of the data set that has not yet been subjected to data cleaning and reduction steps. -
DATA SETS: Occurrence data for Phylloscopus trochiloides ring species
(2016-11-04)Data set comprising 41 occurrences used for model calibration in a study of the distributional history of the Phylloscopus trochiloides complex in Asia. -
Temporal Analysis of River Food Webs
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)Rivers and their tributaries are the arteries of the planet, pumping freshwater to wetlands and lakes and out to sea. Understanding energy flow up trophic levels, nutrient cycling pathways, and relative importance of ... -
HISTORICAL CONTINGENCY AND BIOTIC DETERMINISM IN COMMUNITY ASSEMBLY: A LONG-TERM EXPERIMENT OF GRASSLAND DYNAMICS
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)Starting with studies about ecological succession over a century ago, ecologists have been interested in the extent to which community assembly is predictable and the degree to which assembly is influenced by colonization ...