Linking metacommunity theory and symbiont evolutionary ecology

JR Mihaljevic - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2012 - cell.com
Processes that occur both within and between hosts can influence the ecological and
evolutionary dynamics of symbionts, a broad term that includes parasitic and disease …

Climate-driven changes in functional biogeography of Arctic marine fish communities

A Frainer, R Primicerio, S Kortsch… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Climate change triggers poleward shifts in species distribution leading to changes in
biogeography. In the marine environment, fish respond quickly to warming, causing …

Biogeography and ecology: towards the integration of two disciplines

RE Ricklefs, DG Jenkins - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2011 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Although ecology and biogeography had common origins in the natural history of the
nineteenth century, they diverged substantially during the early twentieth century as ecology …

Host availability drives distributions of fungal endophytes in the imperilled boreal realm

JM U'Ren, F Lutzoni, J Miadlikowska… - Nature Ecology & …, 2019 - nature.com
Boreal forests represent the world's largest terrestrial biome and provide ecosystem services
of global importance. Highly imperilled by climate change, these forests host Earth's greatest …

A tale of two phylogenies: comparative analyses of ecological interactions

JD Hadfield, BR Krasnov, R Poulin… - The American …, 2014 - journals.uchicago.edu
The evolution of traits involved in ecological interactions such as predator-prey, host-
parasite, and plant-pollinator interactions, are likely to be shaped by the phylogenetic history …

Divergent evolutionary trajectories following speciation in two ectoparasitic honey bee mites

MA Techer, RV Rane, ML Grau, JMK Roberts… - Communications …, 2019 - nature.com
Multispecies host-parasite evolution is common, but how parasites evolve after speciating
remains poorly understood. Shared evolutionary history and physiology may propel species …

How big should a mammal be? A macroecological look at mammalian body size over space and time

FA Smith, SK Lyons - … of the Royal Society B: Biological …, 2011 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Macroecology was developed as a big picture statistical approach to the study of ecology
and evolution. By focusing on broadly occurring patterns and processes operating at large …

Reconstructing community assembly in time and space reveals enemy escape in a Western Palearctic insect community

GN Stone, K Lohse, JA Nicholls, P Fuentes-Utrilla… - Current Biology, 2012 - cell.com
How geographically widespread biological communities assemble remains a major
question in ecology [1–4]. Do parallel population histories allow sustained interactions (such …

Accelerated diversification of nonhuman primate malarias in Southeast Asia: adaptive radiation or geographic speciation?

MP Muehlenbein, MA Pacheco… - Molecular biology …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Although parasitic organisms are found worldwide, the relative importance of host specificity
and geographic isolation for parasite speciation has been explored in only a few systems …

Diversification of an emerging pathogen in a biodiversity hotspot: Leptospira in endemic small mammals of Madagascar

M Dietrich, DA Wilkinson, V Soarimalala… - Molecular …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Biodiversity hotspots and associated endemism are ideal systems for the study of parasite
diversity within host communities. Here, we investigated the ecological and evolutionary …