Journal: Trends in Ecology & Evolution

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Trends Ecol Evol

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Cell Press

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0169-5347
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  • Measuring Coevolutionary Dynamics in Species-Rich Communities
    Item type: Review Article
    Hall, Alex R.; Ashby, Ben; Bascompte, Jordi; et al. (2020)
    Trends in Ecology & Evolution
    Identifying different types of coevolutionary dynamics is important for understanding biodiversity and infectious disease. Past work has often focused on pairs of interacting species, but observations of extant communities suggest that coevolution in nature occurs in networks of antagonism and mutualism. We discuss challenges for measuring coevolutionary dynamics in species-rich communities, and we suggest ways that established approaches used for two-species interactions can be applied. We propose ways that such data can be complemented by genomic information and linked back to extant communities via network structure, and we suggest avenues for new theoretical work to strengthen these connections. Quantifying coevolution in species-rich communities has several potential benefits, such as identifying coevolutionary units within networks and uncovering coevolutionary interactions among pathogens of humans, livestock, and crops.
  • Socially transferred materials: why and how to study them
    Item type: Review Article
    Hakala, Sanja Maria; Fujioka, Haruna; Gapp, Katharina; et al. (2023)
    Trends in Ecology & Evolution
    When biological material is transferred from one individual’s body to another, as in ejaculate, eggs, and milk, secondary donor-produced molecules are often transferred along with the main cargo, and influence the physiology and fitness of the receiver. Both social and solitary animals exhibit such social transfers at certain life stages. The secondary, bioactive, and transfer-supporting components in socially transferred materials have evolved convergently to the point where they are used in applications across taxa and type of transfer. The composition of these materials is typically highly dynamic and context dependent, and their components drive the physiological and behavioral evolution of many taxa. Our establishment of the concept of socially transferred materials unifies this multidisciplinary topic and will benefit both theory and applications.
  • The Ecology and Evolution of Stoichiometric Phenotypes
    Item type: Journal Article
    Leal, Miguel C.; Seehausen, Ole; Matthews, Blake (2017)
    Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • Reply to Garner et al.
    Item type: Other Journal Item
    Shafer, Aaron B.A.; Wolf, Jochen B.W.; Alves, Paulo C.; et al. (2016)
    Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • Networking Our Way to Better Ecosystem Service Provision
    Item type: Journal Article
    The QUINTESSENCE Consortium; Bohan, David A.; Pomati, Francesco; et al. (2016)
    Trends in Ecology & Evolution
    The ecosystem services (EcoS) concept is being used increasingly to attach values to natural systems and the multiple benefits they provide to human societies. Ecosystem processes or functions only become EcoS if they are shown to have social and/or economic value. This should assure an explicit connection between the natural and social sciences, but EcoS approaches have been criticized for retaining little natural science. Preserving the natural, ecological science context within EcoS research is challenging because the multiple disciplines involved have very different traditions and vocabularies (common-language challenge) and span many organizational levels and temporal and spatial scales (scale challenge) that define the relevant interacting entities (interaction challenge). We propose a network-based approach to transcend these discipline challenges and place the natural science context at the heart of EcoS research.
  • The Janzen-Connell hypothesis and seed masting
    Item type: Journal Article
    Davies, T. Jonathan; Hille Ris Lambers, Janneke; Wolkovich, E. M. (2025)
    Trends in Ecology & Evolution
    The Janzen-Connell hypothesis (JC effect) has been proposed as a mechanism for explaining high tropical tree diversity via negative conspecific density depen dence imposed by natural enemies. Seed masting describes the uneven invest ment in reproduction between years, and could be a mechanism for reducing seed predation by means of predator satiation. JC effects select for wide dispersal kernels, allowing species to escape enemies in space, while the predator-satiation model of seed masting assumes escape from predators in time. Although representing contrasting ecological dynamics, both models ar predicated on similar assumptions: that tree recruitment is limited by seed mor tality via natural enemies. We suggest that the individual fitness advantages c masting and JC dynamics would be better understood by considering bot mechanisms together.
  • Plant domestication through an ecological lens
    Item type: Journal Article
    Milla, Rubén; Osborne, Colin P.; Turcotte, Martin M.; et al. (2015)
    Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • Reintroducing Environmental Change Drivers in Biodiversity–Ecosystem Functioning Research
    Item type: Journal Article
    De Laender, Frederik; Rohr, Jason R.; Ashauer, Roman; et al. (2016)
    Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • Ten years of landscape genetics
    Item type: Review Article
    Manel, Stéphanie; Holderegger, Rolf (2013)
    Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • Navjot's nightmare revisited
    Item type: Journal Article
    Wilcove, David S.; Giam, Xingli; Edwards, David P.; et al. (2013)
    Trends in Ecology & Evolution
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