Niche breadth is a unifying concept spanning diverse aspects of ecology, evolution, and
conservation biology. Niche breadth usually refers to the diversity of resources used or …

How ecological niche breadth evolves is central to adaptation and speciation and has been
a topic of perennial interest. Niche breadth evolution research has occurred within …

The ecoevolutionary drivers of species niche expansion or contraction are critical for
biodiversity but challenging to infer. Niche expansion may be promoted by local adaptation …

Scientific names are crucial for communicating knowledge concerning fungi and fungus-like
organisms. In plant pathology, they link information regarding biology, host range …

Scientific and technological progress might change people's capabilities or incentives in
ways that would destabilize civilization. For example, advances in DIY biohacking tools …

Identifying the genomic changes that underlie phenotypic adaptations is a key challenge in
evolutionary biology and genomics. Loss of protein-coding genes is one type of genomic …

Microbes form fundamental bases of every Earth ecosystem. As their key survival strategies,
some microbes adapt to broad ranges of environments, while others specialize to certain …

Parasite–host and insect–plant research have divergent traditions despite the fact that most
phytophagous insects live parasitically on their host plants. In parasitology it is a traditional …

Increases in biodiversity often lead to greater, and less variable, levels of ecosystem
functioning. However, whether species are less likely to go extinct in more diverse …

Charles Darwin presented a unified process of diversification driven by the gradual
accumulation of heritable variation. The growth in DNA databases and the increase in …