American Society of Naturalists

Lucas P. Medeiros, Karina Boege, Ek del-Val, Alejandro Zaldivar-Riverón, and Serguei Saavedra (Jan 2021)

Observed ecological communities are not all equally likely to be seen, rather they are among the most likely to persist

Tomos Potter, Ronald D. Bassar, Paul Bentzen, Emily W. Ruell, Julián Torres-Dowdall, Corey A. Handelsman, Cameron K. Ghalambor, Joseph Travis, David N. Reznick, and Tim Coulson (Jan 2021)

Increased population density drives evolution in wild guppies, but also confounds estimation of genetic change

Vassiliki B. Smocovitis, Daniel I. Bolnick, Christopher M. Moore, and Patricia L. Morse (Dec 2020)

Collin B. Edwards and Louie H. Yang (Jan 2021)

A model simulating the evolution of phenological cueing strategies with climate data shows variable phenological shifts

Mar Unzeta, Thomas E. Martin, and Daniel Sol (Dec 2020)

Lower daily nest predation in larger passerine birds reduces total predation compensating their extended development

David M. Watson (Dec 2020)

Mistletoes are the quintessential bird-dispersed plants, but ancient mammals may have first brought them to the treetops

Louise Chevalier, Jacques Labonne, Matthias Galipaud, and François-Xavier Dechaume-Moncharmont (Dec 2020)

Fluctuations in the mating market trigger the evolution of flexible and quality-dependent choosiness in males as in females

Ryan S. Terrill (Dec 2020)

Why do some birds lose flight more readily than others? This research finds a link with rare form of wing feather molt

Douglas F. Makin, Burt P. Kotler, Joel S. Brown, Mario Garrido, and Jorge F. S. Menezes (Dec 2020)

The behaviorally mediated indirect effects that endoparasites have on their host may be as large as the direct effects

Ariel E. Marcy, Thomas Guillerme, Emma Sherratt, Kevin C. Rowe, Matthew J. Phillips, and Vera Weisbecker (Dec 2020)

A size-shape pattern going back ~10 million years in Aus rodents: give me the mouse size, I’ll give you the skull shape!