The idea of 'key innovations' has long been influential in theoretical and empirical
approaches to understanding adaptive diversification. Despite originally revolving around …

Adaptive radiation refers to diversification from an ancestral species that produces
descendants adapted to use a great variety of distinct ecological niches. In this review, I …

The fundamental properties of organisms—what they are, how and where they live, and the
biotic and abiotic interactions that link them to communities and ecosystems—are the …

Biological traits offer valuable approaches to understand species distributions and
underlying mechanisms. Their use has received a growing interest in marine community …

Almost 30 y ago, the field of intraspecific phylogeography laid the foundation for spatially
explicit and genealogically informed studies of population divergence. With new methods …

Large vertebrates are strong interactors in food webs, yet they were lost from most
ecosystems after the dispersal of modern humans from Africa and Eurasia. We call for …

This article explores the development of observation in scientific and everyday contexts.
Fundamental to all scientific activity, expert observation is a complex practice that requires …

Learning that occurs in a field setting is a powerful experience that promotes the
development of new generations of creative scientists, enhances environmental literacy, and …

Knowledge on species' breeding biology is the building blocks of avian life history theory. A
review for the current status of the knowledge at a global scale is needed to highlight the …

Humans, non‐human animals, and technologies are increasingly entangled. Using the
peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus) as an illustrative example, we propose 'technonatural …