Evolutionary Ecology rEEding Group
This group reads and discusses papers in ecology and evolutionary biology. Anyone is welcome to come! For the Spring 2025 semester, we will meet Tuesdays at 14:00 in B8271 (*new room!). . Presenter schedule and pdfs posted below. Sign up sheet is posted here.
Upcoming
2025-05-06:
Principles in Population Genetics, Chapter 6.3 - 6.5
Past papers
2025-04-29:
Principles in Population Genetics, Chapter 6.1 - 6.2 (Chapter 6 linked here)
2025-04-22:
Principles in Population Genetics, Chapter 4.4 - 4.6 (Chapter 5 linked here)
2025-04-15:
Evolutionary history of host trees amplifies the dilution effect of biodiversity on forest pests
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2025-04-08:
Principles in Population Genetics, Chapter 4.0 - 4.3 (Chapter 4 linked here)
2025-04-01:
Code from Dee et al. (2023)
2025-03-25:
Principles in Population Genetics, Chapter 3.6 - 3.7 (Chapter 3 linked here)
2025-03-18: 2025-03-11: 2025-03-04: 2025-02-11: 2025-02-04: 2025-01-28: 2025-01-21: 2024-11-27: 2024-12-04: 2024-11-20: 2024-11-13: 2024-11-06: Leithen M'Gonigle 2024-10-30: Alex Beams 2024-10-23: Michael Foisy 2024-10-16: Hanna Jackson 2024-10-02: Hanna Jackson 2024-09-18: Ailene MacPherson 2024-5-09: Ailene MacPherson 2024-4-25: Everybody 2024-4-11: Elijah Reyes 2024-4-4: Hanna Jackson 2024-3-27: Yexuan Song 2024-3-21: All 2024-3-14: Hanna Jackson 2024-3-07: Alex Beams 2024-2-29: Discussion with Special Guest: Marc Lipsitch 2024-2-15: Arne Mooers 2024-2-1: Alex Beams 2024-1-24: All 2023-11-23: Yexuan Song 2023-11-16: Emma Green 2023-11-09: Elijah Reyes 2023-11-02: Alex Beams 2023-10-26: Elijah Reyes 2023-10-03: Ailene MacPherson 2023-09-28: Elijah Reyes 2023-09-21: Alex Beams 2023-09-14: Arne Mooers 2023-07-27: Miranda Dennis 2023-07-20: Daniel Pelletier 2023-07-13: Phil Fernandez-Fournier 2023-07-06: Chelsea Little 2023-06-29:Avneet Chhina 2023-06-22: Arne Mooers 2023-06-15: Ailene MacPherson (redux!) 2023-06-08: Bernie Crespi 2023-06-01: Mike Hart 2023-05-25: Ailene MacPherson and Ananga Bajgai 2023-05-18: Cedric Chauve 2023-05-11: Emma Green 2023-05-04: Elijah Reyes 2023-04-27: Phil Fernandez-Fournier 2023-04-20: Hanna Jackson 2023-04-13: Prof. John Gittleman (visiting from UGA) 2022-10-28: Daniel Pelletier and Emma Kominek 2022-10-13: Everyone (lead author D. Michelle Tseng is giving Faculty of Environment talk at 1530 in the Halpern Centre, so this is just a warm-up) 2022-10-13: Nick Dulvy, Sarah Gravel, Amanda Rowlands 2022-03-10: All 2022-03-03: Avneet Chhina 2022-02-17: Arne Mooers 2022-02-10: Jayme Lewthwaite 2022-02-03: Leithen M'Gonigle 2021-12-02: Jenny Bigman 2021-11-25: Leithen M'Gonigle 2021-11-18: Emma Green 2021-11-4: Rassim Khelifa 2021-10-28: Wade VanderWright 2021-10-21: Melissa Guzman 2021-10-14: Leithen M'Gonigle 2021-04-29: Elijah Reyes 2021-04-22: Matt Pennell 2021-04-15: open discussion 2021-04-01: Melissa Guzman 2021-03-25: Dan Greenberg 2021-03-18: Jayme Lewthwaite 2021-03-11: Jennifer Bigman 2021-03-04: Arne Mooers 2021-02-25: open discussion 2021-02-11: Deb Obrist 2021-02-04: Sarah Johnson 2021-01-28 David Green 2021-01-21 David Green 2020-12-10 Jayme Lewthwaite 2020-12-03 Dan Greenberg 2020-11-18 (Wednesday): Vancouver Evolution Group (VEG) 2020-11-12: Em Lim 2020-11-05: Philippe Fernandez-Fournier 2020-10-29: Melissa Guzman (again!) 2020-10-22: Arne Mooers 2020-10-15: Miranda Dennis 2020-10-08: Melissa Guzman 2020-10-01: Elijah Reyes 2020-09-24: Jen Bigman 2020-07-30: Hanna Jackson/Hutton Noth 2020-07-23: Leithen M'Gonigle 2020-07-16: Ruth Linksy 2020-07-09: Leithen M'Gonigle 2020-07-02: Melissa Guzman 2020-06-25: Dan Greenberg 2020-06-11: Leithen M'Gonigle 2020-06-04: Melissa Guzman 2020-05-28: Jayme Lewthwaite 2020-05-21: Leithen M'Gonigle 2020-05-14: Allison Dennert 2020-05-07: Leithen M'Gonigle 2020-04-30: Dan Greenberg 2020-04-23: Melissa Guzman 2020-04-16: Jenny Bigman 2020-04-09: Arne Mooers 2020-04-02: Dan Greenberg 2020-03-26: Liam Johnson 2020-03-19: Laura Kroesen 2020-02-27: Ruth Linksy 2020-02-13: Sarah Johnson 2019-11-26: Sarah Johnson 2019-11-12: Jayme Lewthwaite 2019-10-29: Jenny Bigman 2019-10-15: Will Stein 2019-10-01: Arne Mooers 2019-09-17: Melissa Guzman
Clarifying the effect of biodiversity on productivity in natural ecosystems with longitudinal data and methods for causal inference
Principles in Population Genetics, Chapter 3.4 - 3.7
Direct and indirect selection and the evolution of mating preferences
Principles in Population Genetics, Chapter 2.1 - 2.4 (Chapter 2 linked here)
Cooperation maximizes biodiversity
Principles in Population Genetics, Chapter 1
Defining fitness in evolutionary ecology
COVID-19 pandemic interventions reshaped the global dispersal of seasonal influenza viruses
The Strength of Phenotypic Selection in Natural Populations
Phenotypic selection in natural populations: what have we learned in 40 years?
Cycles of fusion and fission enabled rapid parallel adaption radiations in Africa cichlids
The global loss of avian functional and phylogenetic diversity from anthropogenic extinctions
Navigating "tip fog": embracing uncertainty in tip measurements
When can higher-order interactions produce stable coexistence?
The evolutionary history of bees in space and time
Revealing uncertainty in the status of biodiversity change
Interpretation issues with “genomic vulnerability” arise from conceptual issues in local adaptation and maladaptation
The genomic signatures of evolutionary stasis
Papers you found interesting this semester!
Conceptual and empirical bridges between micro- and macroevolution
Species-specific ecological traits, phylogeny, and geography underpin vulnerability to population declines for North American birds
Local frequency as a key to interpreting species occurrence data when recording effort is not known
Extra nestlings that are condemned to die increase reporductive success in hoopoes
Anthropogenic climate and land-use change drive short- and long-term biodiversity shifts across taxa
Transmissible cancers and the evolution of sex under the Red Queen hypothesis
Prediction of post-PCV13 pneumococcal evolution using invasive disease data enhanced by inverse-invasiveness weighting
The contribution of historical processes to contemporary extinction risk in placental mammals
Not just a theory — the utility of mathematical models in evolutionary biology
Elevated genetic risk for multiple sclerosis emerged in steppe pastoralist populations
Characterization of pansocial systems reveals in-group/out-group distinction and out-group tolerance in bonobos
Droplet superpropulsion in an energetically constrained insect
Fluctuating selection maintains distinct species phenotypes in an ecological community in the wild
A practical guide to selecting models for exploration, inference, and prediction in ecology
Same data, different analysts: variation in effect sizes due to analytical decisions in ecology and evolutionary biology
Branching patterns in phylogenies cannot distinguish diversity-dependent diversification from time-dependent diversifications
Sexual selection and the evolution of condition dependence: an experimental test at two resource levels
Dispersal limitation and fire feedbacks maintain mesic savannas in Madagascar
A stabilizing eco-evolutionary feedback loop
Genetic differentiation and evolution of broad-leaved evergreen shrub and tree varieties
Standing genetic variation drove rapid ecotype formation in a mosquito
The Evolution of fast-growing coral reef fishes
Within-host adaptation alters priority effects within the tomato phyllosphere microbiome
Are range limits niche limits?
Character displacement of egg colors during tinamou speciation
A Test of Haldane’s Rule in Neodiprion Sawflies and Implications for the Evolution of Postzygotic Isolation in Haplodiploids
The roots of STEM: what are the evolutionary and neural bases of human mathematics and technology
Ancient gene linkages support ctenophores as sister to other animals
Phylogenetic correlates of extinction risk in mammals: species in older lineages are not at greater risk
Modeling the ecology of parasitic plasmids
The expansion of agriculture has shaped the recent evolutionary history of a specialized squash pollinator
Female preference for rare males is maintained by indirect selection in Trinidadian guppies
To harness traits for ecology, let’s abandon ‘functionality’
How much does the typical ecological meta-analysis overestimate the true mean effect size?
The costs and benefits of primary prevention of zoonotic pandemics
Phylogenetic diversity only weakly mitigates climate-change-driven biodiversity loss in insect communities
Species interactions mediate thermal evolution
Metabolic scaling is the product of life-history optimization
Erosion of global functional diversity across the tree of life
Demographic decline and lineage-specific adaptations characterize New Zealand kiwi
Evolutionary legacies in contemporary tetrapod imperilment
Widespread homogenization of plant communities in the Anthropocene
The ecological stage maintains preference differentiation and promotes speciation
The global ocean size spectrum from bacteria to whales
Two different epigenetic information channels in wild three-spined sticklebacks are involved in salinity adaptation
Rapid climate change results in long-lasting spatial homogenization of phylogenetic diversity
Combining range and phenology shifts offers a winning strategy for boreal Lepidoptera
The sardine run in southeastern Africa is a mass migration into an ecological trap
Rapid Anthropocene realignment of allometric scaling rules
Changes in climate drive recent monarch butterfly dynamics
Adaptation across geographic ranges is consistent with strong selection in marginal climates and legacies of range expansion
Manuscript, pdf
Towards robust statistical inference for complex computer models
Ecology Letters, pdf
Plasticity versus Evolutionary Divergence: What Causes Habitat Partitioning in Urban Adapted Birds?
American Naturalist, pdf
Climate drivers of adult insect activity are conditioned by life history traits
Preprint, pdf
Why aren't rabbits and hares larger?
Evolution, open access
The evolution of critical thermal limits of life on Earth
Nature Communications, open access
An inconvenient tooth: Evaluating female choice in multiple paternity using an evolutionarily and ecologically important vertebrate clade
Molecular Ecology, pdf
Biodiversity loss underlies the dilution effect of biodiversity
Ecology Letters, pdf
Avoiding wasted research resources in conservation science
Conservation Science and Practise, open access
Beyond a single patch: local and regional processes explain diversity patterns in a seagrass epifaunal metacommunity
(pdf)
A complete inventory of North American butterfly occurence data, narrowing gaps but increasing bias
Ecography, open access
Ecological drivers of global gradients in avian dispersal inferred from wing morphology
Nature Communications, open access
How do habitat amount and habitat fragmentation drive time-delayed responses of biodiversity to land-use change?
(pdf)
Climate-related phenology changes interact with generations-per-year to influence range shifts in British butterflies
Nature Communications, so open-access
Clustered versus catastrophic vertebrate population declines
(pdf ; see also this blog)
Evolution of Senescence
(VEG site with information)
Understanding false, random and structural zeros in ecology
(pdf)
Fahrig (again!)
(pdf1) vs. (pdf2)
Habitat fragmentation: a long and tangled tale
(pdf1) vs. (pdf2)
The carrying capacity for species richness
(pdf)
Deconstructing the Impact of Malaria Vector Diversity on Disease Risk
(pdf)
No net insect declines across US long term ecological research sites
(pdf)
See also this blog by Brian McGill
Price's Equation made clear
(open access url)
Fish reproductive-energy output increases disproportionately with body size
(pdf)
Diving back in time: Extending historical baselines for yelloweye rockfish with Indigenous knowledge
(pdf)
Species loss drives ecosystem function in experiments, but in nature the importance of species loss depends on dominance
(pdf) (supplement)
No consistent effects of humans on animal genetic diversity worldwide
(pdf) (supplement) (background 1) (background 2)
Global synthesis of the effectiveness of flower strips and hedgerows on pest control, pollination services and crop yield
(pdf) (supplement)
The Diversity–Innovation Paradox in Science
(pdf) and also this open letter
Extinction filters mediate the global effects of habitat fragmentation on animals
(pdf) (supplement)
Model selection for ecological community data using tree shrinkage priors
(pdf)
Temperature-related biodiversity change across temperate marine and terrestrial systems
(pdf)
Host use diversification during range shifts shapes global variation in Lepidopteran dietary breadth
(pdf)
Ecological Limits as the Driver of Bird Species Richness Patterns along the East Himalayan Elevational Gradient
(pdf)
Species richness change across spatial scales
(pdf)
Meta-analysis reveals declines in terrestrial but increases in freshwater insect abundances
(pdf) (supplement)
A simple dynamic model explains the diversity of island birds worldwide
(pdf)
Neural hierarchical models of ecological populations
(pdf)
Fish body sizes change with temperature but not all species shrink with warming
(pdf) (supplement)
Site-selection bias and apparent population declines in long-term studies
(pdf)
Ecologically diverse clades dominate the oceans via extinction resistance
(pdf) (supplement)
The influence of host-plant connectivity on fungal assemblages in the root microbiota of Brachypodium pinnatum
(pdf)
Temporal road closures improve habitat quality for wildlife
(pdf)
First integrative trend analysis for a great ape species in Borneo
(pdf) (supplement)
Climate change contributes to widespread declines among bumble bees across continents
(pdf) (supplement)
A novel application of the Price equation reveals that landscape diversity promotes the response of bees to regionally rare plant species
(pdf) (supplement)
Strong phenotypic plasticity limits potential for evolutionary responses to climate change
(pdf) (supplement)
Breakdown of brain–body allometry and the encephalization of birds and mammals
(pdf) (supplement) and also (reply) (reply^2)
Decline of the North American avifauna
(pdf) and also read this blog post
Not even wrong: the spurious measurement of biodiversity's effects on ecosystem functioning
(pdf)
Identifying a common backbone of interactions underlying food webs from different ecosystems
(pdf)