Read about “Food Web Structure Mediates Positive and Negative Effects of Diversity on Ecosystem Functioning in a Large Floodplain River” by Dalmiro Borzone Mas, Pablo A. Scarabotti, Patricio Alvarenga, Pablo A. Vaschetto, and Matías Arim (August 2025)
How are diversity, food web structure and ecosystem functioning related? Here Borzone Mas et al. analyze the interrelationship between these three components in predatory fishes of the Paraná River
Read about “MacArthur’s Consumer-Resource Model: A Rosetta Stone for Competitive Interactions” by Jawad Sakarchi and Rachel M. Germain (March 2025)
Sakarchi & Germain break down MacArthur’s consumer resource model with insights on the mechanistic understanding and biological intuition of how competition and coexistence operate
Read about “Lizard thermal physiology drives abundance peaks along climate gradients, but only weakly predicts distributional limits” by Zachary K. Lange, Brooke L. Bodensteiner, Daniel J. Nicholson, Gavia Lertzman-Lepofsky, Alexander H. Murray, Edita Folfas, Saúl F. Domínguez-Guerrero, D. Luke Mahler, Martha M. Muñoz, and Luke O. Frishkoff (September 2025)
Read about “The Evolution of Homeothermic Endothermy via Life History Optimization” by Juan G. Rubalcaba (August 2025)
Why do endotherms spend so much energy? A theoretical model shows that species followed one of two possible evolutionary patches: live fast while spending a lot (homeotherms), live slowly and keep your costs low (heterotherms)
Read about “Prenatal Cues of Predation Risk Modulate the Lasting Effects of Postnatal Predator Exposure in Gull Chicks” by Susana Cortés-Manzaneque, Sin-Yeon Kim, Jose C. Noguera, Francisco Ruiz-Raya, and Alberto Velando (July 2025)
This study provides strong evidence that prenatal signals of predation risk prepare chicks to cope with predators during their postnatal development, based on findings from a field experiment on the yellow-legged gull
Read about “A Life History Perspective on the Evolutionary Interplay of Sex Ratios and Parental Sex Roles” by Xiaoyan Long, Tamas Székely, Jan Komdeur, and Franz J. Weissing (Feb 2025)
Read about “Evolutionary lability of sexual selection and its implications for speciation and macroevolution” by Matheus Januario, Renato C. Macedo-Rego, and Daniel L. Rabosky (April 2025)
Januario et al. found no correlation between sexual selection intensity & speciation rates or proxy traits (SSD and dichromatism). Because sexual selection intensity has high intraspecific variation and low phylogenetic signal, its macroevolutionary impacts are weak
Read about “Partitioning the impacts of spatial-temporal variation in demography and dispersal on metapopulation growth rates” by Sebastian J. Schreiber (Feb 2025)
Read about "Thermal preference plasticity in ectotherms: Integrating temperature affinity and thermoregulation precision" by Gwenaëlle Deconninck, Nicolas Meyer, Hervé Colinet, and Sylvain Pincebourde (Sept 2025)
Read about “Effects of Phylogeny on Coexistence in Model Communities” by Carlos A. Serván, José A. Capitán, Zachary R. Miller, and Stefano Allesina (Feb 2025)
