Slowing taxon cycle can explain biodiversity patterns on islands: Insights into the biogeography of the tropical South Pacific from molecular data

G Keppel, FJ Nge, T Ibanez - Journal of Systematics and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Islands in the tropical Pacific Ocean are renowned for high biodiversity and endemism
despite having relatively small landmasses. However, our knowledge of how this …

Interplay of diet and sympatry in the morphological evolution of noctilionoid bats

C López‐Aguirre, JM Ratcliffe… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Aim The remarkable ecomorphological diversity of the bat superfamily Noctilionoidea is the
result of a diet‐mediated adaptive radiation. Stemming from a putatively insectivorous …

Analysis of Morphological Change during a Co-invading Assemblage of Lizards in the Hawaiian Islands

JG Phillips, TJ Hagey, M Hagemann, E Gering - Evolutionary Biology, 2024 - Springer
Phenotypic change plays diverse roles in species' colonization, but most invasion studies
target single species. To compare ecomorphological changes among co-invading species …

Geometric morphometric assessment of toe shape in forest and urban lizards following hurricane disturbances

R Michaud, TJ Hagey, LF De León… - Integrative …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Evidence suggests that hurricanes can influence the evolution of organisms, with phenotypic
traits involved in adhesion, such as the toepads of arboreal lizards, being particularly …

Convergence or redundancy: alternative views about the evolutionary genomics of character displacement

DL Crawford, MC Thompson, T Conn, M Kaufman… - …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
An evolutionary debate contrasts the importance of genetic convergence versus genetic
redundancy. In genetic convergence, the same adaptive trait evolves because of similar …

Male and female Anolis carolinensis maintain their dimorphism despite the presence of novel interspecific competition

YE Stuart, JW Sherwin, A Kamath, T Veen - Evolution, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Natural selection favors sexual dimorphism that reduces resource competition between the
sexes of the same species. However, niche partitioning among interspecific competitors …

Rapid morphological shifts in a co-invaded assemblage of lizards

JG Phillips, TJ Hagey, M Hagemann, E Gering - 2022 - researchsquare.com
Phenotypic change plays diverse and crucial roles in biotic invasion, but most studies of
invasions focus on individual species. To compare ecomorphological changes among co …

[BOOK][B] A Tale of Two Todies: Understanding How Hispaniola's Todies Coexist in Sympatric Zones of the Dominican Republic

H Garrod - 2022 - search.proquest.com
Species pairs existing in sympatry provide systems to better understand species boundaries.
These species pairs could diverge through character displacement or converge through …

ECOLOGICAL RELEASE ANALYZED AMONG INDIVIDUALS, ACROSS TWO GENERATIONS, AND ALONG MULTIPLE NICHE AXES IN ANOLIS CAROLINENSIS

NC Herrmann, AM Rabe, S Coates, L Storks, JB Losos… - Breviora, 2022 - BioOne
A population freed from a constraining interspecific interaction (eg, competition or predation)
may experience niche shifts and expansions. This phenomenon, termed ecological release …

[HTML][HTML] Anole Annals

S Meiri - anoleannals.org
In late April 2021, someone posted a facebook image of a lizard seen in a residence garden
in Rishon LeZion, a satellite city of Tel-Aviv, Israel (approximately 31.9611 N, 34.7889 E) …