Pub Date : 2021-08-10DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-012021-092849
S. Beissinger, E. Riddell
We examine the evidence linking species’ traits to contemporary range shifts and find they are poor predictors of range shifts that have occurred over decades to a century. We then discuss reasons for the poor performance of traits for describing interspecific variation in range shifts from two perspectives: ( a) factors associated with species’ traits that degrade range-shift signals stemming from the measures used for species’ traits, traits that are typically not analyzed, and the influence of phylogeny on range-shift potential and ( b) issues in quantifying range shifts and relating them to species’ traits due to imperfect detection of species, differences in the responses of altitudinal and latitudinal ranges, and emphasis on testing linear relationships between traits and range shifts instead of nonlinear responses. Improving trait-based approaches requires a recognition that traits within individuals interact in unexpected ways and that different combinations of traits may be functionally equivalent. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, Volume 52 is November 2021. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.1146/ANNUREV-ECOLSYS-122420-102909
B. Downes, B. Peckarsky, J. Lancaster, W. Bovill, M. Alp
Understanding what regulates population sizes of organisms with complex life cycles is challenging because limits on population sizes can occur at any stage or transition. We extend a conceptual framework to explore whether numbers of successfully laid eggs determine densities of later stages in insects, fish, amphibians, and snails inhabiting marine, freshwater, or terrestrial habitats. Our review suggests novel hypotheses, which propose characteristics of species or environments that create spatial variation in egg densities and predict when such patterns are maintained throughout subsequent life-cycle stages. Existing data, although limited, suggest that persistent, strong associations between egg and subsequent juvenile densities are likely for species where suitable egg-laying habitat is in short supply. Those associations are weakened in some environments and for some species by density-dependent losses of eggs or hatchlings. Such cross-ecosystem comparisons are fundamental to generality in ecology but demand place-based understandings of species’ biology and natural history. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, Volume 52 is November 2021. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.
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Pub Date : 2020-11-02DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-011720-103212
Alison L. Greggor, O. Berger‐Tal, D. Blumstein
Integrating knowledge and principles of animal behavior into wildlife conservation and management has led to some concrete successes but has failed to improve conservation outcomes in other cases. ...
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Pub Date : 2020-11-02DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-012120-115156
J. Dalling, A. Davis, A. Arnold, C. Sarmiento, P. Zalamea
Plant defense theory explores how plants invest in defenses against natural enemies but has focused primarily on the traits expressed by juvenile and mature plants. Here we describe the diverse way...
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Pub Date : 2020-11-02DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-011720-124511
Carolyn A. Wessinger, Lena C Hileman
Flower evolution is characterized by widespread repetition, with adaptations to pollinator environment evolving in parallel. Recent studies have expanded our understanding of the developmental basi...
花的进化以广泛的重复为特征,对传粉者环境的适应是平行进化的。最近的研究扩大了我们对发育基础的理解。
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Pub Date : 2020-11-02DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-011720-121505
David H. Hembry, Marjorie G Weber
Linking interspecific interactions (e.g., mutualism, competition, predation, parasitism) to macroevolution (evolutionary change on deep timescales) is a key goal in biology. The role of species int...
{"title":"Ecological Interactions and Macroevolution: A New Field with Old Roots","authors":"David H. Hembry, Marjorie G Weber","doi":"10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-011720-121505","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-011720-121505","url":null,"abstract":"Linking interspecific interactions (e.g., mutualism, competition, predation, parasitism) to macroevolution (evolutionary change on deep timescales) is a key goal in biology. The role of species int...","PeriodicalId":7988,"journal":{"name":"Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics","volume":"88 2 1","pages":"215-243"},"PeriodicalIF":11.8,"publicationDate":"2020-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88693133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-11-02DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-011620-031032
J. Albert, Victor A. Tagliacollo, F. P. Dagosta
Neotropical freshwater fishes (NFFs) constitute the most diverse continental vertebrate fauna on Earth, with more than 6,200 named species compressed into an aquatic footprint <0.5% of the total re...
{"title":"Diversification of Neotropical Freshwater Fishes","authors":"J. Albert, Victor A. Tagliacollo, F. P. Dagosta","doi":"10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-011620-031032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-011620-031032","url":null,"abstract":"Neotropical freshwater fishes (NFFs) constitute the most diverse continental vertebrate fauna on Earth, with more than 6,200 named species compressed into an aquatic footprint <0.5% of the total re...","PeriodicalId":7988,"journal":{"name":"Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics","volume":"47 1","pages":"27-53"},"PeriodicalIF":11.8,"publicationDate":"2020-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78761819","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-11-02DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-110218-024746
T. Lyson, G. S. Bever
The origin of turtles and their uniquely shelled body plan is one of the longest standing problems in vertebrate biology. The unfulfilled need for a hypothesis that both explains the derived nature...
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Pub Date : 2020-11-02DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-011720-023322
N. Hardy, Chloe Kaczvinsky, Gwendolyn Bird, B. Normark
Half a million species of herbivorous insects have been described. Most of them are diet specialists, using only a few plant species as hosts. Biologists suspect that their specificity is key to th...
{"title":"What We Don't Know About Diet-Breadth Evolution in Herbivorous Insects","authors":"N. Hardy, Chloe Kaczvinsky, Gwendolyn Bird, B. Normark","doi":"10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-011720-023322","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-011720-023322","url":null,"abstract":"Half a million species of herbivorous insects have been described. Most of them are diet specialists, using only a few plant species as hosts. Biologists suspect that their specificity is key to th...","PeriodicalId":7988,"journal":{"name":"Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics","volume":"6 1","pages":"103-122"},"PeriodicalIF":11.8,"publicationDate":"2020-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76073173","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-11-02DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-110218-024908
R. Pringle, Matthew C. Hutchinson
Food webs are a major focus and organizing theme of ecology, but the data used to assemble them are deficient. Early debates over food-web data focused on taxonomic resolution and completeness, lac...
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