Evolutionary principles guiding amphibian conservation

M Pabijan, G Palomar, B Antunes… - Evolutionary …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The Anthropocene has witnessed catastrophic amphibian declines across the globe. A
multitude of new, primarily human‐induced drivers of decline may lead to extinction, but can …

Eco‐evolutionary consequences of habitat warming and fragmentation in communities

CA Faillace, A Sentis, JM Montoya - Biological Reviews, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Eco‐evolutionary dynamics can mediate species and community responses to habitat
warming and fragmentation, two of the largest threats to biodiversity and ecosystems. The …

Rapid adaptation to invasive predators overwhelms natural gradients of intraspecific variation

A Melotto, R Manenti, GF Ficetola - Nature Communications, 2020 - nature.com
Invasive predators can exert strong selection on native populations. If selection is strong
enough, populations could lose the phenotypic variation caused by adaptation to …

Advancing understanding of amphibian evolution, ecology, behavior, and conservation with massively parallel sequencing

WC Funk, KR Zamudio, AJ Crawford - Population genomics: wildlife, 2021 - Springer
Genomics has great potential to advance understanding of amphibian evolution, ecology,
and behavior, as well as to improve conservation of this highly imperiled class of …

Habitat‐linked genetic variation supports microgeographic adaptive divergence in an Island‐endemic bird species

RG Cheek, BR Forester, PE Salerno… - Molecular …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We investigated the potential mechanisms driving habitat‐linked genetic divergence within a
bird species endemic to a single 250‐km2 island. The island scrub‐jay (Aphelocoma …

Warming strengthens the ecological role of intraspecific variation in a predator

DC Fryxell, EP Palkovacs - Copeia, 2017 - meridian.allenpress.com
Recent work shows communities and ecosystems can be shaped by predator intraspecific
variation, but it is unclear whether the magnitude and direction of these influences are …

Fitter frogs from polluted ponds: The complex impacts of human‐altered environments

SP Brady, FJ Zamora‐Camacho… - Evolutionary …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Human‐modified habitats rarely yield outcomes that are aligned with conservation ideals.
Landscapes that are subdivided by roads are no exception, precipitating negative impacts …

Microhabitat contributes to microgeographic divergence in threespine stickleback

MF Maciejewski, C Jiang, YE Stuart, DI Bolnick - Evolution, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Since the New Synthesis, most migration-selection balance theory has predicted
that there should be negligible differentiation over small spatial scales (relative to dispersal) …

Outbreeding reduces survival during metamorphosis in a headwater stream salamander

WH Lowe, BR Addis, MM Cochrane - Molecular Ecology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Assessing direct fitness effects of individual genetic diversity is challenging due to the
intensive and long‐term data needed to quantify survival and reproduction in the wild. But …

A Multigenerational Field Experiment on Eco-evolutionary Dynamics of the Influential Lizard Anolis sagrei: A Mid-term Report

TW Schoener, JJ Kolbe, M Leal, JB Losos… - Copeia, 2017 - meridian.allenpress.com
Only a handful of multi-generational experiments in natural systems of eco-evolutionary
dynamics currently exist, despite Fussmann et al.'s call for more such studies nearly a …