Dispersal is central in ecology and evolution because it influences population regulation,
adaptation, and speciation. In many species, dispersal is different between genders, leading …

Glucocorticoid hormones (GCs) are central mediators of metabolism and the response to
challenges. Because circulating GC levels increase in response to challenges, within …

Living turtles are characterized by extraordinarily low species diversity given their age. The
clade's extensive fossil record indicates that climate and biogeography may have played …

Acoustic communication is crucial to humans and many other tetrapods, including birds,
frogs, crocodilians, and mammals. However, large-scale patterns in its evolution are largely …

Our understanding of macroevolutionary patterns of adaptive evolution has greatly
increased with the advent of large-scale phylogenetic comparative methods. Widely used …

Competing theoretical models make different predictions on which life history strategies
facilitate growth of small populations. While 'fast'strategies allow for rapid increase in …

Diversification rates vary over time, yet the factors driving these variations remain unclear.
Temporal declines in speciation rates have often been interpreted as the effect of ecological …

Functional traits have long been considered the 'holy grail'in community ecology due to their
potential to link phenotypic variation with ecological processes. Advancements across …

Evolutionary biologists since Darwin have been fascinated by differences in the rate of trait‐
evolutionary change across lineages. Despite this continued interest, we still lack methods …

The relative importance of different modes of evolution in sha** phenotypic diversity
remains a hotly debated question. Fossil data suggest that stasis may be a common mode of …