- Department:(Dept. 5) Evolutionary and Integrative Ecology
Mangroves support an estimated annual abundance of over 700 billion juvenile fish and invertebrates
Understanding biological invasions through the lens of environmental niches
Hypothesis Description: Darwin’s Naturalisation Hypothesis
Environmental effects of the Kakhovka Dam destruction by warfare in Ukraine
Fundamental questions in meiofauna research highlight how small but ubiquitous animals can improve our understanding of Nature
This paper identifies the top-50 priority questions for meiofaunal research, highlighting their critical roles in biogeochemical cycles and biodiversity. It calls for a balanced research agenda, international cooperation, and advances in technology to overcome current challenges and unlock meiofauna’s full potential.
Altered Phenotypic Responses of Asexual Arctic Daphnia After 10 Years of Rapid Climate Change
Freshwater ecosystems in the Arctic are important sentinels for climate change, but not much is known about the potential for rapid adaptation of their asexually reproducing key zooplankton members. Applying a resurrection ecology approach to an asexual Arctic Daphnia population, the authors provide evidence for a change in thermal and hypoxia tolerance within a decade.
Leveraging Massive Opportunistically Collected Datasets to Study Species Communities in Space and Time
Determinants of species' centrality in spatially-connected plant-frugivore networks
Food fight: Gammarus tigrinus demonstrate competitive advantage over native G. duebeni
New fish migrations into the Panama Canal increase likelihood of interoceanic invasions in the Americas
The authors have compared the fish communities of Lake Gatun in the Panama Canal before and after the canal’s expansion in 2016: Marine fish species now make up 76 percent of the total biomass of the fish population and are primarily large predatory fishes. The lake’s food web is changing and local fisheries are impacted. There is also an increased risk of fishes colonizing the opposite ocean.