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Partial Migration, Oversummering, and Intermittent Breeding by Shorebirds.
IF 2.4 2区 环境科学与生态学 Q2 ECOLOGY Pub Date : 2025-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-02-10 DOI: 10.1086/734101
Ronald C Ydenberg

AbstractIndividuals of some long-distance migrant shorebird species may remain on or near nonbreeding areas in place of making a breeding migration. Existing hypotheses associate oversummering with factors that impair successful migration and breeding. The hypothesis developed here takes a life history trade-off perspective. Based on the idea that survival while oversummering is higher than that of migration and breeding, it predicts that oversummering evolves when the survival advantage compensates in fitness terms for the reproduction foregone by doing so. Adults have higher reproductive success and so oversummer less readily than do yearlings. If the oversummering survival gain is similar to the threshold level of compensation required, interindividual variation in condition may place some individuals above and others below the threshold for oversummering. Partial oversummering can result. This theory accurately predicts the strong contrast in oversummering patterns observed in Peru for both adult and yearling semipalmated Calidris pusilla and western sandpipers C. mauri, otherwise very similar species. Delayed maturity (i.e., oversummering by yearlings) and intermittent breeding (partial oversummering by adults) strongly affect population productivity. These behaviors may have increased over recent decades and hence could be contributing to the steep declines being reported for some shorebird species.

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Evolutionary Lability of Sexual Selection and Its Implications for Speciation and Macroevolution.
IF 2.4 2区 环境科学与生态学 Q2 ECOLOGY Pub Date : 2025-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-06 DOI: 10.1086/734457
Matheus Januario, Renato C Macedo-Rego, Daniel L Rabosky

AbstractSexual selection is widely hypothesized to facilitate speciation and phenotypic evolution, but evidence from comparative studies has been mixed. Many previous studies have relied on proxy variables to quantify the intensity of sexual selection, raising the possibility that inconclusive results may reflect, in part, the imperfect measurement of this evolutionary process. Here, we test the relationship between phylogenetic speciation rates and indices of the opportunity for sexual selection drawn from populations of 82 vertebrate taxa. These indices provide a much more direct assessment of sexual selection intensity than proxy traits and allow straightforward comparisons among distantly related clades. We find no correlation between the opportunity for sexual selection and speciation rate, and this result is consistent across many complementary analyses. In addition, widely used proxy variables-sexual dimorphism and dichromatism-are not correlated with the indices employed here. Moreover, we find that the opportunity for sexual selection has low phylogenetic signal and that intraspecific variability in selection indices for many species approaches the range of variation observed across all vertebrates as a whole. Our results potentially reconcile a major paradox in speciation biology at the interface between microevolution and macroevolution: sexual selection can be important for speciation, yet the evolutionary lability of the process over deeper timescales restricts its impact on broad-scale patterns of biodiversity.

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Dynamics of Mixed-Ploidy Populations under Demographic and Environmental Stochasticities. 人口和环境随机性条件下混合倍性种群的动态。
IF 2.4 2区 环境科学与生态学 Q2 ECOLOGY Pub Date : 2025-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-02-18 DOI: 10.1086/734411
Michelle L Gaynor, Nicholas Kortessis, Douglas E Soltis, Pamela S Soltis, José Miguel Ponciano

AbstractThe population dynamics of autopolyploids-organisms with more than two genome copies of a single species-and their diploid progenitors have been extensively studied. The acquisition of multiple genome copies is heavily influenced by stochasticity, which strongly suggests the efficacy of a probabilistic approach to examine the long-term dynamics of a population with multiple cytotypes. Yet our current understanding of the dynamics of autopolyploid populations has not incorporated stochastic population dynamics and coexistence theory. To investigate the factors contributing to the probability and stability of coexisting cytotypes, we designed a new population dynamics model that incorporates demographic and environmental stochasticities to simulate the formation, establishment, and persistence of diploids, triploids, and autotetraploids in the face of gene flow among cytotypes. We found that increased selfing rates and pronounced reproductive isolation promote coexistence of multiple cytotypes. In stressful environments and with strong competitive effects among cytotypes, these dynamics are more complex; our stochastic modeling approach reveals the resulting intricacies that give autotetraploids competitive advantage over their diploid progenitors. Our work is foundational for a better understanding of the dynamics of coexistence of multiple cytotypes.

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Discovering Stochastic Dynamical Equations from Ecological Time Series Data.
IF 2.4 2区 环境科学与生态学 Q2 ECOLOGY Pub Date : 2025-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-02-27 DOI: 10.1086/734083
Arshed Nabeel, Ashwin Karichannavar, Shuaib Palathingal, Jitesh Jhawar, David B Brückner, Danny Raj M, Vishwesha Guttal

AbstractTheoretical studies have shown that stochasticity can affect the dynamics of ecosystems in counterintuitive ways. However, without knowing the equations governing the dynamics of populations or ecosystems, it is difficult to ascertain the role of stochasticity in real datasets. Therefore, the inverse problem of inferring the governing stochastic equations from datasets is important. Here, we present an equation discovery methodology that takes time series data of state variables as input and outputs a stochastic differential equation. We achieve this by combining traditional approaches from stochastic calculus with the equation discovery techniques. We demonstrate the generality of the method via several applications. First, we deliberately choose various stochastic models with fundamentally different governing equations, yet they produce nearly identical steady-state distributions. We show that we can recover the correct underlying equations, and thus infer the structure of their stability, accurately from the analysis of time series data alone. We demonstrate our method on two real-world datasets-fish schooling and single-cell migration-that have vastly different spatiotemporal scales and dynamics. We illustrate various limitations and potential pitfalls of the method and how to overcome them via diagnostic measures. Finally, we provide our open-source code via a package named PyDaDDy (Python Library for Data-Driven Dynamics).

摘要 理论研究表明,随机性会以反直觉的方式影响生态系统的动态。然而,如果不知道制约种群或生态系统动态的方程,就很难确定随机性在真实数据集中的作用。因此,从数据集中推断支配随机方程的逆向问题非常重要。在这里,我们提出了一种方程发现方法,它将状态变量的时间序列数据作为输入,并输出随机微分方程。我们通过将随机微积分的传统方法与方程发现技术相结合来实现这一目标。我们通过几个应用来证明该方法的通用性。首先,我们特意选择了各种随机模型,它们的控制方程完全不同,但产生的稳态分布却几乎相同。我们证明,仅通过对时间序列数据的分析,我们就能恢复正确的基础方程,从而准确推断出其稳定性结构。我们在两个现实世界的数据集--鱼群游弋和单细胞迁移--上演示了我们的方法,这两个数据集的时空尺度和动态变化大相径庭。我们说明了该方法的各种局限性和潜在隐患,以及如何通过诊断措施克服它们。最后,我们通过名为 PyDaDDy(数据驱动动力学 Python 库)的软件包提供了我们的开源代码。
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Availability of Juvenile Refuge Habitats Explains the Dynamics and Size Structure of Cannibalistic Fish Populations. 幼鱼避难所的可用性解释了食人鱼种群的动态和大小结构。
IF 2.4 2区 环境科学与生态学 Q2 ECOLOGY Pub Date : 2025-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-02-18 DOI: 10.1086/734103
Wojciech Uszko, Tobias van Kooten, Pär Byström

AbstractMany animals exhibit ontogenetic niche shifts as they grow, which strongly affects population dynamics. However, such niche shifts can be constrained by the physical environment that the population occupies. To study this, we develop a physiologically structured population model parameterized for brown trout and vary the availability of a stream used as an exclusive juvenile nursery habitat. We find fewer but large, fast-growing adults in lakes with small streams and more but smaller, slow-growing adults in lakes with large streams. We show that the mechanism behind this pattern is a reduced ability of cannibals to control juvenile survival in the lake with increasing stream availability. Juveniles emerging from the stream at larger sizes intensify competition with the lake-dwelling adults, leading to slower individual growth. These results are similar for other sources of size-dependent juvenile mortality in the lake. Field data from brown trout lakes across a stream size gradient show the same pattern: reduced trout growth and fewer large individuals in lakes with larger tributary streams. We show how ontogenetic niche shifts and stage-specific habitat availability affect population structure and dynamics through size-dependent mortality and competition. Our results provide an important foundation that may help design effective conservation and restoration strategies.

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Do Mixed-Species Groups Travel as One? An Investigation on Large African Herbivores Monitored Using Animal-Borne Video Collars. 混合物种群体是否作为一个整体旅行?对使用兽载视频项圈监测的非洲大型食草动物的调查。
IF 2.4 2区 环境科学与生态学 Q2 ECOLOGY Pub Date : 2025-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-02-17 DOI: 10.1086/734410
Romain Dejeante, Marion Valeix, Simon Chamaillé-Jammes

AbstractAlthough prey foraging in mixed-species groups benefit from a reduced risk of predation, whether heterospecific groupmates move together in the landscape, and more generally to what extent mixed-species groups remain cohesive over time and space, remains unknown. Here, we used GPS collars with video cameras to investigate the movements of plains zebras (Equus quagga) in mixed-species groups. Blue wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus), impalas (Aepyceros melampus), and giraffes (Giraffa camelopardalis) commonly form mixed-species groups with zebras in savanna ecosystems. We found that zebras adjust their movement decisions solely on the basis of the presence of giraffes, being more likely to move in zebra-giraffe herds, and this was correlated with a higher cohesion of such groups. Additionally, zebras moving with giraffes spent more time grazing, suggesting that zebras benefit from foraging in the proximity of giraffes. Our results provide new insights into animal movements in mixed-species groups, contributing to a better consideration of mutualism in movement ecology.

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Vertical Niche Partitioning and the Performance of Mixotrophic Generalists against Autotrophic and Heterotrophic Specialists under Contrasting Light-Nutrient Supply Regimes.
IF 2.4 2区 环境科学与生态学 Q2 ECOLOGY Pub Date : 2025-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-02-12 DOI: 10.1086/734553
Philippe Le Noac'h, Sebastian Diehl, Beatrix E Beisner

AbstractA vertical separation in light and nutrient availability is observed in many terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. In lakes and oceans, the opposing vertical gradients of light and nutrients typically observed are believed to promote phagomixotrophy, a generalist strategy that combines resource acquisition through photoautotrophic and phagoheterotrophic pathways. While phagomixotrophy is widespread, it is not well understood how this strategy performs against pure specialist strategies in a resource competition context. We simulate the dynamics of three competitors (pure photoautotroph, phagomixotroph, pure phagoheterotroph) and bacterial prey over the vertical dimension of a water column to investigate what conditions of resource availability favor mixotrophy and how the presence of the phagomixotroph alters community dynamics. Since mixotrophs can be more or less photoautotrophic, we incorporated this variability into our model. Under weak vertical mixing, mixotrophs persist under most light and nutrient conditions and negatively affect specialists. Mixotrophs can even be dominant competitors when they display an optimal degree of phototrophy, which is positively related to water transparency and negatively related to nutrient supply. The model indicates that the spatial organization of nanophytoplankton communities in water columns could arise through vertical niche partitioning of multiple resource acquisition strategies and that phagomixotrophy can promote overall community production.

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Interaction Outcomes in Mutualism-Antagonism Continua: Context Dependency and Instantaneous Effects of the Interactions.
IF 2.4 2区 环境科学与生态学 Q2 ECOLOGY Pub Date : 2025-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-01-16 DOI: 10.1086/733503
Alfonso Ruiz-Herrera

AbstractIt is increasingly evident that most interactions are not static and move along a continuum ranging from pure mutualism (i.e., in which each species in the interaction has a net benefit in the long term) to pure antagonism (i.e., in which each species in the interaction has a net damage in the long term). Despite numerous experimental and theoretical works on this concept, predicting interaction outcomes within an ecological community continues to pose a significant challenge. This article aims to tackle this challenge by presenting a theoretical methodology for predicting the interaction outcomes within the common mutualism-antagonism modeling framework. Specifically, my main finding is to describe the influence of the population abundance of the species, the interaction effects, and the ecological context on the interaction outcomes and to quantify their relative contribution. I found that the interaction outcomes depend on the number of interacting species. In particular, when the number of interacting species increases, the trend is to skip situations where all species benefit from the interactions.

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Georgii F. Gause's The Struggle for Existence and the Integration of Natural History and Mathematical Models.
IF 2.4 2区 环境科学与生态学 Q2 ECOLOGY Pub Date : 2025-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-01-10 DOI: 10.1086/734003
Topaz Halperin

AbstractFor as long as ecology has existed, ecologists have struggled to reconcile natural history and mathematical models. This article revisits Gause's 1934 book, The Struggle for Existence, which effectively bridged their divide in his time by integrating insights from the then-separate natural history niche theory and the demographic Lotka-Volterra model. Gause's integration was based on a compelling verbal argument in which he reinterpreted the competition coefficient in terms of the niche concept. This interpretation was highly influential and was later embedded in models of modern coexistence theory. The discussion will compare Gause's verbal integration with current modeling-based approaches. While uncommon today, it will be argued that Gause's original approach carries unique advantages and remains relevant to contemporary ecology.

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MacArthur's Consumer-Resource Model: A Rosetta Stone for Competitive Interactions.
IF 2.4 2区 环境科学与生态学 Q2 ECOLOGY Pub Date : 2025-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-01-10 DOI: 10.1086/733516
Jawad Sakarchi, Rachel M Germain

AbstractRecent developments in competition theory-namely, modern coexistence theory (MCT)-have aided empiricists in formulating tests of species persistence, coexistence, and evolution from simple to complex community settings. However, the parameters used to predict competitive outcomes, such as interaction coefficients, invasion growth rates, and stabilizing differences, remain biologically opaque, making findings difficult to generalize across ecological settings. This article is structured around five goals toward clarifying MCT by first making a case for the modern-day utility of MacArthur's consumer-resource model, a model with surprising complexity and depth: (i) to describe the model in uniquely accessible language, deciphering the mathematics toward cultivating deeper biological intuition about competition's inner workings regardless of what empirical toolkit one uses; (ii) to provide translation between biological mechanisms from MacArthur's model and parameters used to predict coexistence in MCT; (iii) to make explicit important but understated assumptions of MacArthur's model in plain terms; (iv) to provide empirical recommendations; and (v) to examine how key ecological concepts (e.g., r/K-selection) can be understood with renewed clarity through MacArthur's lens. We end by highlighting opportunities to explore mechanisms in tandem with MCT and to compare and translate results across ecological currencies toward a more unified ecological science.

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