Landscape moderation of biodiversity patterns and processes‐eight hypotheses

T Tscharntke, JM Tylianakis, TA Rand… - Biological …, 2012‏ - Wiley Online Library
Understanding how landscape characteristics affect biodiversity patterns and ecological
processes at local and landscape scales is critical for mitigating effects of global …

Adaptation to marginal habitats

TJ Kawecki - Annual review of ecology, evolution, and …, 2008‏ - annualreviews.org
The ability to adapt to marginal habitats, in which survival and reproduction are initially poor,
plays a crucial role in the evolution of ecological niches and species ranges. Adaptation to …

Phenotypic plasticity in response to climate change: the importance of cue variation

S Bonamour, LM Chevin… - … Transactions of the …, 2019‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Phenotypic plasticity is a major mechanism of response to global change. However, current
plastic responses will only remain adaptive under future conditions if informative …

The multifarious effects of dispersal and gene flow on contemporary adaptation

D Garant, SE Forde, AP Hendry - Functional Ecology, 2007‏ - JSTOR
1. Dispersal and gene flow can have a variety of interacting effects on evolution. These
effects can either promote or constrain adaptive divergence through either genetic or …

Phenology, seasonal timing and circannual rhythms: towards a unified framework

ME Visser, SP Caro, K Van Oers… - … Transactions of the …, 2010‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Phenology refers to the periodic appearance of life-cycle events and currently receives
abundant attention as the effects of global change on phenology are so apparent …

The design of artificial nestboxes for the study of secondary hole-nesting birds: a review of methodological inconsistencies and potential biases

MM Lambrechts, F Adriaensen, DR Ardia… - Acta …, 2010‏ - ingentaconnect.com
The widespread use of artificial nestboxes has led to significant advances in our knowledge
of the ecology, behaviour and physiology of cavity nesting birds, especially small …

Genetic variance in fitness indicates rapid contemporary adaptive evolution in wild animals

T Bonnet, MB Morrissey, P de Villemereuil, SC Alberts… - Science, 2022‏ - science.org
The rate of adaptive evolution, the contribution of selection to genetic changes that increase
mean fitness, is determined by the additive genetic variance in individual relative fitness. To …

Draining the swam** hypothesis: little evidence that gene flow reduces fitness at range edges

EJ Kottler, EE Dickman, JP Sexton, NC Emery… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2021‏ - cell.com
The genetic swam** hypothesis proposes that gene flow from central to peripheral
populations inhibits local adaptation and is one of the most widely recognized explanations …

Urbanization is associated with divergence in pace-of-life in great tits

A Charmantier, V Demeyrier, M Lambrechts… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2017‏ - frontiersin.org
As an extension of the classic life history theory, the recently highlighted pace-of-life
syndrome hypothesis predicts the coevolution of behavioral, physiological and life-history …

The effect of climate change on the duration of avian breeding seasons: a meta-analysis

L Halupka, K Halupka - … of the Royal Society B: Biological …, 2017‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Many bird species are advancing the timing of their egg-laying in response to a warming
climate. Little is known, however, of whether this advancement affects the respective length …