Local adaptation: causal agents of selection and adaptive trait divergence

SM Wadgymar, ML DeMarche… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Divergent selection across the landscape can favor the evolution of local adaptation in
populations experiencing contrasting conditions. Local adaptation is widely observed in a …

Environmental stress destabilizes microbial networks

DJ Hernandez, AS David, ES Menges… - The ISME …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Environmental stress is increasing worldwide, yet we lack a clear picture of how stress
disrupts the stability of microbial communities and the ecosystem services they provide …

Microbial rescue effects: how microbiomes can save hosts from extinction

EA Mueller, NI Wisnoski, AL Peralta… - Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Rescue effects arise when ecological and evolutionary processes restore positive intrinsic
growth rates in populations that are at risk of going extinct. Rescue effects have traditionally …

[HTML][HTML] Shifts in microbial communities in shallow lakes depending on trophic states: Feasibility as an evaluation index for eutrophication

Y Wang, M Guo, X Li, G Liu, Y Hua, J Zhao, A Huguet… - Ecological …, 2022 - Elsevier
Microbial communities are an important component of aquatic ecosystems. They play active
roles in the biogeochemical cycles of organic matter and nutrients to maintain the health and …

Host specificity of microbiome assembly and its fitness effects in phytoplankton

SL Jackrel, JW Yang, KC Schmidt, VJ Denef - The ISME journal, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Insights into symbiosis between eukaryotic hosts and their microbiomes have shifted
paradigms on what determines host fitness, ecology, and behavior. Questions remain …

Do plant–microbe interactions support the Stress Gradient Hypothesis?

AS David, KB Thapa‐Magar, ES Menges, CA Searcy… - Ecology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Stress Gradient Hypothesis (SGH), which predicts increasing ratios of
facilitative: competitive interactions with increasing stress, has long been a guiding …

Rules of plant species ranges: Applications for conservation strategies

JE Shay, LK Pennington… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Earth is changing rapidly and so are many plant species' ranges. Here, we synthesize eco-
evolutionary patterns found in plant range studies and how knowledge of species ranges …

Network map** of root–microbe interactions in Arabidopsis thaliana

X He, Q Zhang, B Li, Y **, L Jiang, R Wu - npj Biofilms and …, 2021 - nature.com
Understanding how plants interact with their colonizing microbiota to determine plant
phenotypes is a fundamental question in modern plant science. Existing approaches for …

Range Size and Niche Breadth as Predictors of Climate-Induced Habitat Change in Epipactis (Orchidaceae)

A Evans, H Jacquemyn - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 - frontiersin.org
While there is mounting evidence that ongoing changes in the climate system are shifting
species ranges poleward and to higher altitudes, responses to climate change vary …

Microbes, mutualism, and range margins: testing the fitness consequences of soil microbial communities across and beyond a native plant's range

JW Benning, DA Moeller - New Phytologist, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Interactions between plants and soil fungi and bacteria are ubiquitous and have large effects
on individual plant fitness. However, the degree to which spatial variation in soil microbial …