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A global horizon scan for urban evolutionary ecology
(2022)
The impact of urbanization on biodiversity has been well documented, yet research into the complex dynamics of ecological and evolutionary processes in urban areas is still in its infancy. When novel research challenges ...
Evolution and coevolution in mutualistic networks
(WILEY-BLACKWELL, 2011)
A major current challenge in evolutionary biology is to understand how networks of interacting species shape the coevolutionary process. We combined a model for trait evolution with data for twenty plant-animal assemblages ...
An ecosystemic view for developing biologically plausible optimization systems
(Universidade Tecnológica Federal do ParanáCuritibaPrograma de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia Elétrica e Informática Industrial, 2013-02-19)
The search for plausible biologically inspired ideas, models and computational paradigms always drew the interest of computer scientists, particularly those from the Natural Computing area. Also, the concept of optimization ...
The effect of seed traits on geographic variation in body size and sexual size dimorphism of the seed-feeding beetle Acanthoscelides macrophthalmus
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2016)
Explaining large-scale patterns of variation in body size has been considered a central question in ecology and evolutionary biology because several life-history traits are directly linked to body size. For ectothermic ...
Black Swans in ecology and evolution: The importance of improbable but highly influential events
(Queen's University, 2012-07-22)
The role of improbable but highly influential events in ecology and evolution is poorly understood. Recent works in economics and finance emphasize the importance that these events, so-called Black Swans, can have for the ...
The hidden costs of living in a transformed habitat: Ecological and evolutionary consequences in a tripartite mutualistic system with a keystone mistletoe
(Elsevier B.V., 2019)
© 2018 Elsevier B.V. Land use change is one of the most important anthropogenic drivers of biodiversity loss. Nevertheless, the ecological and evolutionary consequences of habitat transformation remain less understood than ...
Measuring natural selection on multivariate phenotypic traits: a protocol for verifiable and reproducible analyses of natural selection
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2019-09)
The use of multiple regression analysis to quantify the regime and strength of natural selection in nature has been an influential approach in evolutionary biology over the last 36 years. However, many studies fail to ...
Climatic vulnerabilities and ecological preferences of soil invertebrates across biomes
(WILEY, 2020)
Unlike plants and vertebrates, the ecological preferences, and potential vulnerabilities of soil invertebrates to environmental change, remain poorly understood in terrestrial ecosystems globally. We conducted a cross-biome ...