Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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Extended-Spectrum Beta-Lactamases Producing Escherichia coli in South America: A Systematic Review with a One Health Perspective
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2022-08-04)Purpose: Extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing (ESBL) Enterobacteriaceae, which includes Escherichia coli, has emerged as a global health threat. ESBL enzymes including CTX-M, TEM, and SHV are the most detected. Here, ... -
Disturbance and nutrients synchronise kelp forests across scales through interacting Moran effects
(Wiley, 2022-06-30)Spatial synchrony is a ubiquitous and important feature of population dynamics, but many aspects of this phenomenon are not well understood. In particular, it is largely unknown how multiple environmental drivers interact ... -
Genome sequence and silkomics of the spindle ermine moth, Yponomeuta cagnagella, representing the early diverging lineage of the ditrysian Lepidoptera
(Nature Research, 2022-11-23)Many lepidopteran species produce silk, cocoons, feeding tubes, or nests for protection from predators and parasites for caterpillars and pupae. Yet, the number of lepidopteran species whose silk composition has been studied ... -
Nitrogen-fixing symbiotic bacteria act as a global filter for plant establishment on islands
(Nature Research, 2022-11-10)Island biogeography has classically focused on abiotic drivers of species distributions. However, recent work has highlighted the importance of mutualistic biotic interactions in structuring island floras. The limited ... -
Colour scales with climate in North American ratsnakes: a test of the thermal melanism hypothesis using community science images
(The Royal Society, 2022-12-21)Animal colour is a complex trait shaped by multiple selection pressures that can vary across geography. The thermal melanism hypothesis predicts that darker coloration is beneficial to animals in colder regions because it ... -
The genomic scale of fluctuating selection in a natural plant population
(Oxford University Press, 2022-12-11)This study characterizes evolution at ≈1.86 million Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) within a natural population of yellow monkeyflower (Mimulus guttatus). Most SNPs exhibit minimal change over a span of 23 generations ... -
Convergent evolution of elaborate nests as structural defences in birds
(The Royal Society, 2022-12-21)The pendent nests of some weaverbird and icterid species are among the most complex structures built by any animal, but why they have evolved remains to be explained. The precarious attachments and extended entrance tunnels ... -
Substrate and low intensity fires influence bacterial communities in longleaf pine savanna
(Nature Research, 2022-12-03)Bacterial communities associated with vegetation-soil interfaces have important roles in terrestrial ecosystems. These bacterial communities, studied almost exclusively in unburnt ecosystems or those affected by rare, ... -
High thermal tolerance in high-elevation species and laboratory-reared colonies of tropical bumble bees
(Wiley Open Access, 2022-12-04)Bumble bees are key pollinators with some species reared in captivity at a commercial scale, but with significant evidence of population declines and with alarming predictions of substantial impacts under climate change ... -
Diversification and historical demography of Rhampholeon spectrum in West-Central Africa
(Public Library of Science, 2022-12-16)Pygmy Chameleons of the genus Rhampholeon represent a moderately diverse, geographically circumscribed radiation, with most species (18 out of 19 extant taxa) limited to East Africa. The one exception is Rhampholeon spectrum, ... -
Neotropical stingless bees display a strong response in cold tolerance with changes in elevation
(Oxford University Press, 2022-12-21)Tropical pollinators are expected to experience substantial effects due to climate change, but aspects of their thermal biology remain largely unknown. We investigated the thermal tolerance of stingless honey-making bees, ... -
Roosting habits of disk-winged bats, especially Thyroptera discifera
(Therya, 2023-01)Roosting habits of disk-winged bats of the genus Thyroptera (Chiroptera: Thyropteridae) have been unknown to very poorly known except for those of the commonly encountered T. tricolor. Many secondary literature publications ... -
Fire as a driver of fungal diversity — A synthesis of current knowledge
(Taylor and Francis, 2022-03-28)Fires occur in most terrestrial ecosystems where they drive changes in the traits, composition, and diversity of fungal communities. Fires range from rare, stand-replacing wildfires to frequent, prescribed fires used to ... -
Sex-specific natural selection on SNPs in Silene latifolia
(Wiley Open Access, 2022-05-27)Selection that acts in a sex-specific manner causes the evolution of sexual dimorphism. Sex-specific phenotypic selection has been demonstrated in many taxa and can be in the same direction in the two sexes (differing only ... -
The Phylogenetic Position of the Enigmatic, Polypodium hydriforme (Cnidaria, Polypodiozoa): Insights from Mitochondrial Genomes
(Oxford University Press, 2022-07-22)Polypodium hydriforme is an enigmatic parasite that belongs to the phylum Cnidaria. Its taxonomic position has been debated: whereas it was previously suggested to be part of Medusozoa, recent phylogenomic analyses based ... -
Fungal community structure and seasonal trajectories respond similarly to fire across pyrophilic ecosystems
(Oxford University Press, 2020-11-05)Fire alters microbial community composition, and is expected to increase in frequency due to climate change. Testing whether microbes in different ecosystems will respond similarly to increased fire disturbance is difficult ... -
Pine savanna restoration on agricultural landscapes: The path back to native savanna ecosystem services
(Elsevier, 2022-04-20)Restoration of savanna ecosystems within their historic range is expected to increase provision of ecosystem services to resident human populations. However, the benefits of restoration depend on the degree to which ... -
Quantifying ecological variation across jurisdictional boundaries in a management mosaic landscape
(Springer, 2021-04)Context Large landscapes exhibit natural heterogeneity. Land management can impose additional variation, altering ecosystem patterns. Habitat characteristics may reflect these management factors, potentially resulting in ...